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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-19.

Thinking Machines: Inkling Z.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
Vendorthinkingmachinesz-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-56.8
Input Price$1.00/M$1.20/M
Output Price$4.05/M$4.00/M
Context Window1,048,576202,752
Max Output-131,072
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-56.9

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingZ.ai: GLM 5V Turbo
SQL Generation 125 136
Code Review 128 134
Code Completion 119 116
Code Refactoring 132 133
Bug Fixing 136 138
Unit Test Generation 116 126
Code Documentation 131 128
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 116 122
Frontend Component Design 118 128
Data Analysis 120 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 121 127
ETL Scripting 124 128
JSON Extraction 111 123
Bulk Data Labeling 116 120
OCR / Document Parsing 123 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 123 129
Long-Document Summarization 137 134
Short-Form Summarization 115 117
Blog Post Writing 121 124

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

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