Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling
Compare Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22) by Anthropic against Thinking Machines: Inkling by Thinking Machines, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Thinking Machines: Inkling has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Thinking Machines: Inkling is 3.7x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Input
$1.00
3.0× cheaper
Output
$4.05
3.7× cheaper
Thinking Machines: Inkling is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 3.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
33%
Thinking Machines: Inkling uses 3.9x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 3.6 (2022-10-22)
Thinking Machines: Inkling
66%Vocabulary57%
74wSentence Length19w
0.72Hedging0.30
0.3Bold5.0
8.9Lists2.7
0.00Emoji0.04
0.06Headings0.49
0.09Transitions0.06
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