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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

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

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	google	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	84.4	70.5
Input Price	$1.50/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$7.50/M	$2.02/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	65,536	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	85.1	69.8
ai_index_agentic	66.8	56.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	169	156
Code Review	165	156
Code Completion	119	132
Code Refactoring	163	154
Bug Fixing	178	171
Unit Test Generation	153	140
Code Documentation	141	141
Regex Writing	134	133
CI/CD Pipelines	143	136
Frontend Component Design	145	138
Data Analysis	168	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	139
ETL Scripting	153	145
JSON Extraction	139	134
Bulk Data Labeling	125	130
OCR / Document Parsing	146	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	136
Long-Document Summarization	158	155
Short-Form Summarization	122	130
Blog Post Writing	139	136

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