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Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch) vs SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
Vendor	thinkingmachines	x-ai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	70.5	-
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$2.02/M	$2.00/M
Context Window	524,288	256,000
Max Output	-	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	69.8	-
ai_index_agentic	56.3	-
ai_index_coding	85.9	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
SQL Generation	156	130
Code Review	156	126
Code Completion	132	116
Code Refactoring	154	127
Bug Fixing	171	130
Unit Test Generation	140	121
Code Documentation	141	125
Regex Writing	133	119
CI/CD Pipelines	136	117
Frontend Component Design	138	122
Data Analysis	157	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	127
ETL Scripting	145	122
JSON Extraction	134	123
Bulk Data Labeling	130	121
OCR / Document Parsing	136	128
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	128
Long-Document Summarization	155	129
Short-Form Summarization	130	115
Blog Post Writing	136	118

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