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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small 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 Small	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	94.7
Input Price	$0.45/M	$2.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$12.50/M
Context Window	524,288	1,000,000
Max Output	262,144	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	94.6
ai_index_agentic	52.6	81.5
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0
eqbench	-	83.3

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation	164	178
Code Review	159	179
Code Completion	133	121
Code Refactoring	158	176
Bug Fixing	170	193
Unit Test Generation	148	161
Code Documentation	141	148
Regex Writing	133	138
CI/CD Pipelines	139	151
Frontend Component Design	141	151
Data Analysis	160	178
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	158
ETL Scripting	149	164
JSON Extraction	146	138
Bulk Data Labeling	134	123
OCR / Document Parsing	144	149
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	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 →