inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.036 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $3.50, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 96.2 times cheaper for the same work.

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash VL.

On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.8 Max (0902) leads 77.3 to 38.6.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Qwen3.8 Max (0902) on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost; pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) if you need long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.