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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)
Vendorthinkingmachinesopenai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score70.599.3
Input Price$0.95/M$2.50/M
Output Price$4.05/M$15.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,050,000
Max Output262,144128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.8100.0
ai_index_agentic56.395.3
ai_index_coding85.9100.0

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)
SQL Generation 164 174
Code Review 160 171
Code Completion 132 118
Code Refactoring 158 167
Bug Fixing 171 187
Unit Test Generation 148 157
Code Documentation 140 142
Regex Writing 132 136
CI/CD Pipelines 140 147
Frontend Component Design 142 149
Data Analysis 161 177
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 150 154
ETL Scripting 149 157
JSON Extraction 145 138
Bulk Data Labeling 133 122
OCR / Document Parsing 144 147
Table Extraction from PDFs 144 147
Long-Document Summarization 155 162
Short-Form Summarization 129 122
Blog Post Writing 136 142

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

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