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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling OpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-68.1
Input Price$1.00/M$0.20/M
Output Price$4.05/M$1.25/M
Context Window1,048,576400,000
Max Output-128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-63.1
ai_index_agentic-45.4
ai_index_coding-92.5

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingOpenAI: GPT-5.4 Nano
SQL Generation 125 163
Code Review 128 158
Code Completion 119 133
Code Refactoring 132 157
Bug Fixing 136 168
Unit Test Generation 116 148
Code Documentation 131 140
Regex Writing 119 132
CI/CD Pipelines 116 139
Frontend Component Design 118 141
Data Analysis 120 159
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 121 151
ETL Scripting 124 148
JSON Extraction 111 146
Bulk Data Labeling 116 134
OCR / Document Parsing 123 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 123 144
Long-Document Summarization 137 154
Short-Form Summarization 115 130
Blog Post Writing 121 135

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

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