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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-18.

Thinking Machines: Inkling Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Vendorthinkingmachinesgoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-52.0
Input Price$1.00/M$0.10/M
Output Price$4.05/M$0.30/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output-256,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-42.4
ai_index_agentic-18.1
ai_index_coding-64.9
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation 125 154
Code Review 128 151
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 132 150
Bug Fixing 136 158
Unit Test Generation 116 141
Code Documentation 131 137
Regex Writing 119 130
CI/CD Pipelines 116 134
Frontend Component Design 118 137
Data Analysis 120 149
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 121 144
ETL Scripting 124 142
JSON Extraction 111 142
Bulk Data Labeling 116 133
OCR / Document Parsing 123 139
Table Extraction from PDFs 123 139
Long-Document Summarization 137 149
Short-Form Summarization 115 129
Blog Post Writing 121 132

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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