inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-04.
| inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | inclusionai | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 38.6 | 55.6 |
| Input Price | $0.02/M | Free |
| Output Price | $0.06/M | Free |
| Context Window | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 32,768 | 235,929 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 40.5 | 55.6 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.8 27B (free) costs $0 and Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.036, so Qwen3.8 27B (free) is free for the same work.
Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.
On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.8 27B (free) leads 55.6 to 38.6.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 27B (free) on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and Qwen3.8 27B (free) in August 2026.
Pick Qwen3.8 27B (free) if you need lower cost, 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 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 136 | 137 |
| Code Review | 134 | 137 |
| Code Completion | 130 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 134 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 138 | 141 |
| Unit Test Generation | 126 | 127 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 124 | 125 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 122 | 123 |
| Frontend Component Design | 126 | 128 |
| Data Analysis | 130 | 132 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 130 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 130 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 130 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 136 | 138 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 126 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 124 | 125 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →