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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	84.4
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$7.50/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	85.1
ai_index_agentic	52.6	66.8
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
SQL Generation	164	169
Code Review	159	165
Code Completion	133	119
Code Refactoring	158	163
Bug Fixing	170	178
Unit Test Generation	148	153
Code Documentation	141	141
Regex Writing	133	134
CI/CD Pipelines	139	143
Frontend Component Design	141	145
Data Analysis	160	168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	153
ETL Scripting	149	153
JSON Extraction	146	139
Bulk Data Labeling	134	125
OCR / Document Parsing	144	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	146
Long-Document Summarization	155	158
Short-Form Summarization	130	122
Blog Post Writing	136	139

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