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Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

	Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	~z-ai	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	68.7
Input Price	$0.07/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$0.25/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,310,720	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	67.9
ai_index_agentic	-	52.6
ai_index_coding	-	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Z.ai: GLM Flash Latest	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	134	156
Code Review	132	155
Code Completion	131	133
Code Refactoring	136	154
Bug Fixing	136	170
Unit Test Generation	124	140
Code Documentation	131	141
Regex Writing	119	133
CI/CD Pipelines	120	135
Frontend Component Design	122	137
Data Analysis	124	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	134	139
ETL Scripting	128	145
JSON Extraction	131	134
Bulk Data Labeling	129	130
OCR / Document Parsing	131	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	136
Long-Document Summarization	138	155
Short-Form Summarization	123	130
Blog Post Writing	122	136

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