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Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch) vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	70.5	94.7
Input Price	$0.50/M	$2.50/M
Output Price	$2.02/M	$12.50/M
Context Window	524,288	1,000,000
Max Output	-	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	69.8	94.6
ai_index_agentic	56.3	81.5
ai_index_coding	85.9	100.0
eqbench	-	83.3

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation	156	178
Code Review	156	179
Code Completion	132	121
Code Refactoring	154	176
Bug Fixing	171	193
Unit Test Generation	140	161
Code Documentation	141	148
Regex Writing	133	138
CI/CD Pipelines	136	151
Frontend Component Design	138	151
Data Analysis	157	178
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	158
ETL Scripting	145	164
JSON Extraction	134	138
Bulk Data Labeling	130	123
OCR / Document Parsing	136	149
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	149
Long-Document Summarization	155	171
Short-Form Summarization	130	123
Blog Post Writing	136	146

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