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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Vendorthinkingmachinesmistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score39.419.3
Input Price$1.00/M$1.50/M
Output Price$4.05/M$7.50/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output471,859209,715
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index41.223.4

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingMistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation 130 133
Code Review 135 130
Code Completion 119 115
Code Refactoring 138 131
Bug Fixing 143 134
Unit Test Generation 120 124
Code Documentation 134 126
Regex Writing 123 120
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 122 124
Data Analysis 126 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 123 128
ETL Scripting 129 125
JSON Extraction 111 122
Bulk Data Labeling 116 119
OCR / Document Parsing 125 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 125 129
Long-Document Summarization 144 132
Short-Form Summarization 117 115
Blog Post Writing 126 121

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

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