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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendorqwenthinkingmachines
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score97.970.5
Input Price$2.00/M$0.95/M
Output Price$6.00/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072262,144
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index95.869.8
ai_index_agentic96.456.3
ai_index_coding100.085.9

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 175 164
Code Review 170 160
Code Completion 120 132
Code Refactoring 167 158
Bug Fixing 186 171
Unit Test Generation 157 148
Code Documentation 143 140
Regex Writing 137 132
CI/CD Pipelines 147 140
Frontend Component Design 149 142
Data Analysis 176 161
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 150
ETL Scripting 157 149
JSON Extraction 140 145
Bulk Data Labeling 125 133
OCR / Document Parsing 147 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 144
Long-Document Summarization 162 155
Short-Form Summarization 124 129
Blog Post Writing 142 136

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

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