Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Compare Thinking Machines: Inkling by Thinking Machines against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 66K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B InstructRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Thinking Machines: Inkling has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
Input
$0.15
6.7× cheaper
Output
$1.50
2.7× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct is cheaper on both — 6.7× input, 2.7× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
56%
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct uses 15.2x more emoji
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct
57%Vocabulary52%
19wSentence Length16w
0.30Hedging0.20
5.0Bold5.8
2.7Lists3.7
0.04Emoji0.59
0.49Headings0.96
0.06Transitions0.05
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