Sakana: Fugu Max vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-13.
| Sakana: Fugu Max | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | sakana | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 38.6 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $0.06/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 32,768 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 40.5 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.036 and Fugu Max costs $3.50, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 96.2 times cheaper for the same work.
Fugu Max 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.
Only Ling 3.0 Flash VL offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Fugu Max scores higher on 6 (Code Refactoring, Code Documentation, CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup and others), Ling 3.0 Flash VL on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Fugu Max if you need long documents; pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost, video input 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.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Sakana: Fugu Max | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 136 |
| Code Review | 132 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 134 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 126 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 130 |
| Regex Writing | 118 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 122 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 126 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 130 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 130 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 130 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 114 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →