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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Thinking Machines: Inkling Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
Vendorthinkingmachinesgoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score39.453.7
Input Price$1.00/MFree
Output Price$4.05/MFree
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output471,85932,768
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index41.231.3
eqbench-70.8

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingGoogle: Gemma 4 31B (free)
SQL Generation 130 140
Code Review 135 140
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 138 141
Bug Fixing 143 144
Unit Test Generation 120 130
Code Documentation 134 135
Regex Writing 123 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 126
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 126 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 123 134
ETL Scripting 129 133
JSON Extraction 111 132
Bulk Data Labeling 116 130
OCR / Document Parsing 125 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 125 131
Long-Document Summarization 144 143
Short-Form Summarization 117 127
Blog Post Writing 126 128

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

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