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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	70.5
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$2.02/M
Context Window	524,288	524,288
Max Output	262,144	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	69.8
ai_index_agentic	52.6	56.3
ai_index_coding	87.4	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	164	156
Code Review	159	156
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	158	154
Bug Fixing	170	171
Unit Test Generation	148	140
Code Documentation	141	141
Regex Writing	133	133
CI/CD Pipelines	139	136
Frontend Component Design	141	138
Data Analysis	160	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	139
ETL Scripting	149	145
JSON Extraction	146	134
Bulk Data Labeling	134	130
OCR / Document Parsing	144	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	136
Long-Document Summarization	155	155
Blog Post Writing	136	136

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

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