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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	97.9	69.1
Input Price	$2.00/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$6.00/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,000,000	524,288
Max Output	131,072	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	95.8	67.9
ai_index_agentic	96.4	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	175	164
Code Review	170	159
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	167	158
Bug Fixing	186	170
Unit Test Generation	157	148
Code Documentation	143	141
Regex Writing	137	133
CI/CD Pipelines	147	139
Frontend Component Design	149	141
Data Analysis	176	160
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	151
ETL Scripting	157	149
JSON Extraction	140	146
Bulk Data Labeling	125	134
OCR / Document Parsing	147	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	144
Long-Document Summarization	162	155
Short-Form Summarization	124	130
Blog Post Writing	142	136

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