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SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

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

	SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	x-ai	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	99.8	70.5
Input Price	$2.00/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$6.00/M	$2.02/M
Context Window	500,000	524,288
Max Output	-	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	100.0	69.8
ai_index_agentic	96.8	56.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	175	156
Code Review	171	156
Code Completion	120	132
Code Refactoring	167	154
Bug Fixing	187	171
Unit Test Generation	157	140
Code Documentation	144	141
Regex Writing	138	133
CI/CD Pipelines	147	136
Frontend Component Design	149	138
Data Analysis	177	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	155	139
ETL Scripting	157	145
JSON Extraction	140	134
Bulk Data Labeling	125	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	163	155
Short-Form Summarization	124	130
Blog Post Writing	143	136

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