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Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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

	Meta: Muse Spark 1.2	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	meta	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	92.4	69.1
Input Price	$1.25/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$4.25/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	-	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	93.7	67.9
ai_index_agentic	81.4	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Meta: Muse Spark 1.2	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	173	164
Code Review	168	159
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	165	158
Bug Fixing	182	170
Unit Test Generation	155	148
Code Documentation	143	141
Regex Writing	137	133
CI/CD Pipelines	145	139
Frontend Component Design	147	141
Data Analysis	173	160
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	151
ETL Scripting	155	149
JSON Extraction	140	146
Bulk Data Labeling	126	134
OCR / Document Parsing	147	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	144
Long-Document Summarization	161	155
Short-Form Summarization	124	130
Blog Post Writing	141	136

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