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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	62.3
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.25/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	61.8
ai_index_agentic	52.6	44.8
ai_index_coding	87.4	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	164	161
Code Review	159	157
Code Refactoring	158	156
Bug Fixing	170	166
Unit Test Generation	148	146
Code Documentation	141	140
Regex Writing	133	131
CI/CD Pipelines	139	137
Frontend Component Design	141	139
Data Analysis	160	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	149
ETL Scripting	149	147
JSON Extraction	146	145
Bulk Data Labeling	134	134
OCR / Document Parsing	144	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	143
Long-Document Summarization	155	153
Short-Form Summarization	130	129
Blog Post Writing	136	135

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

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