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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendorthinkingmachinesminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score39.447.2
Input Price$1.00/M$0.30/M
Output Price$4.05/M$1.20/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output471,859512,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index41.248.2

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingMiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 130 139
Code Review 135 141
Code Completion 119 132
Code Refactoring 138 143
Bug Fixing 143 145
Unit Test Generation 120 129
Code Documentation 134 136
Regex Writing 123 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 126 131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 123 135
ETL Scripting 129 134
JSON Extraction 111 131
Bulk Data Labeling 116 129
OCR / Document Parsing 125 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 125 133
Long-Document Summarization 144 145
Short-Form Summarization 117 126
Blog Post Writing 126 127

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

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