Cohere: Command A+ vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| Cohere: Command A+ | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | cohere | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 17.4 | 38.6 |
| Input Price | $0.30/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $1.50/M | $0.06/M |
| Context Window | 192,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 64,000 | 32,768 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 21.7 | 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 Command A+ costs $0.68, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 18.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Both take in a similar amount of text: 192,000 and 262,144 tokens, about 288 and 393 pages.
Only Ling 3.0 Flash VL offers video input.
On our blended benchmark score Ling 3.0 Flash VL leads 38.6 to 17.4.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost, video input, 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.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Cohere: Command A+ | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 136 |
| Code Review | 127 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 127 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 134 |
| Bug Fixing | 131 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 122 | 126 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 130 |
| Regex Writing | 121 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 118 | 122 |
| Frontend Component Design | 124 | 126 |
| Data Analysis | 127 | 130 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 126 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 127 | 130 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 127 | 130 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 128 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →