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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendorthinkingmachinesmoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score39.440.9
Input Price$1.00/M$0.71/M
Output Price$4.05/M$3.30/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output471,859235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index41.242.6

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation 130 136
Code Review 135 134
Code Completion 119 129
Code Refactoring 138 134
Bug Fixing 143 138
Unit Test Generation 120 126
Code Documentation 134 129
Regex Writing 123 123
CI/CD Pipelines 120 122
Frontend Component Design 122 127
Data Analysis 126 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 123 129
ETL Scripting 129 128
JSON Extraction 111 131
Bulk Data Labeling 116 128
OCR / Document Parsing 125 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 125 130
Long-Document Summarization 144 136
Short-Form Summarization 117 125
Blog Post Writing 126 124

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

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