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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs xAI: Grok Latest

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	xAI: Grok Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~x-ai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.1	10.6
Input Price	$0.45/M	$2.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$6.00/M
Context Window	524,288	500,000
Max Output	262,144	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	12.0
ai_index_agentic	52.6	-
ai_index_coding	87.4	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	xAI: Grok Latest
SQL Generation	164	134
Code Review	159	134
Code Completion	133	118
Code Refactoring	158	137
Bug Fixing	170	138
Unit Test Generation	148	125
Code Documentation	141	131
Regex Writing	133	119
CI/CD Pipelines	139	121
Frontend Component Design	141	123
Data Analysis	160	125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	151	133
ETL Scripting	149	129
JSON Extraction	146	122
Bulk Data Labeling	134	119
OCR / Document Parsing	144	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	144	131
Long-Document Summarization	155	139
Short-Form Summarization	130	115
Blog Post Writing	136	122

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