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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendor	thinkingmachines	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	73.5
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.67/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$3.40/M
Context Window	524,288	262,144
Max Output	262,144	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	71.0
ai_index_agentic	52.6	50.0
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation	164	163
Code Review	159	156
Code Completion	133	129
Code Refactoring	158	151
Bug Fixing	170	166
Unit Test Generation	148	147
Code Documentation	141	135
Regex Writing	133	133
CI/CD Pipelines	139	138
Frontend Component Design	141	143
Data Analysis	160	162
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	147
ETL Scripting	149	144
JSON Extraction	146	147
Bulk Data Labeling	134	134
OCR / Document Parsing	144	142
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	142
Long-Document Summarization	155	147
Short-Form Summarization	130	130
Blog Post Writing	136	134

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