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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)

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

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)
SQL Generation	130	141
Code Review	135	143
Code Completion	119	133
Code Refactoring	138	145
Bug Fixing	143	147
Unit Test Generation	120	131
Code Documentation	134	137
Regex Writing	123	126
CI/CD Pipelines	120	127
Frontend Component Design	122	129
Data Analysis	126	133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	136
ETL Scripting	129	136
JSON Extraction	111	131
Bulk Data Labeling	116	129
OCR / Document Parsing	125	134
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	134
Long-Document Summarization	144	147
Short-Form Summarization	117	126
Blog Post Writing	126	129

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