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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendorthinkingmachinesanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score70.594.7
Input Price$0.95/M$2.50/M
Output Price$4.05/M$12.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.894.6
ai_index_agentic56.381.5
ai_index_coding85.9100.0
eqbench-83.3

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation 164 178
Code Review 160 179
Code Completion 132 121
Code Refactoring 158 176
Bug Fixing 171 193
Unit Test Generation 148 161
Code Documentation 140 148
Regex Writing 132 138
CI/CD Pipelines 140 151
Frontend Component Design 142 151
Data Analysis 161 178
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 150 158
ETL Scripting 149 164
JSON Extraction 145 138
Bulk Data Labeling 133 123
OCR / Document Parsing 144 149
Table Extraction from PDFs 144 149
Long-Document Summarization 155 171
Short-Form Summarization 129 123
Blog Post Writing 136 146

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

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