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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendor	google	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	62.3	70.5
Input Price	$0.15/M	$0.95/M
Output Price	$1.25/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	61.8	69.8
ai_index_agentic	44.8	56.3
ai_index_coding	81.4	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation	161	164
Code Review	157	160
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	156	158
Bug Fixing	166	171
Unit Test Generation	146	148
Code Documentation	140	140
Regex Writing	131	132
CI/CD Pipelines	137	140
Frontend Component Design	139	142
Data Analysis	157	161
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	149	150
ETL Scripting	147	149
JSON Extraction	145	145
Bulk Data Labeling	134	133
OCR / Document Parsing	143	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	143	144
Long-Document Summarization	153	155
Short-Form Summarization	129	129
Blog Post Writing	135	136

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