Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-04.
| Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 38.6 |
| Input Price | $0.15/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $0.47/M | $0.06/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 131,072 | 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 Qwen3.8 Omni Flash costs $0.27, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 7.3 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash 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 Qwen3.8 Omni Flash offers audio input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.8 Omni Flash scores higher on 7 (Code Completion, Code Refactoring, Code Documentation and others), Ling 3.0 Flash VL on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Bug Fixing and others).
Pick Qwen3.8 Omni Flash if you need long documents or audio input; pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost.
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 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 136 |
| Code Review | 132 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 134 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 126 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 130 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 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 | 131 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 130 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 130 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →