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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	thinkingmachines	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	77.0
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	512,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	74.9
ai_index_agentic	52.6	59.6
ai_index_coding	87.4	96.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	164	167
Code Review	159	162
Code Completion	133	133
Code Refactoring	158	160
Bug Fixing	170	174
Unit Test Generation	148	151
Code Documentation	141	142
Regex Writing	133	134
CI/CD Pipelines	139	141
Frontend Component Design	141	143
Data Analysis	160	164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	153
ETL Scripting	149	151
JSON Extraction	146	148
Bulk Data Labeling	134	135
OCR / Document Parsing	144	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	145
Long-Document Summarization	155	157
Short-Form Summarization	130	131
Blog Post Writing	136	138

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