Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-08.
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 73.6 | 38.6 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/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 | 71.6 | 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 Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.23, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 6.2 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Haiku 5.5 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.
On our blended benchmark score Claude Haiku 5.5 leads 73.6 to 38.6.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Ling 3.0 Flash VL on 2 (JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling).
Claude Haiku 5.5 was released in October 2026 and Ling 3.0 Flash VL in September 2026.
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 if you need long documents, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost or video input.
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 | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 136 |
| Code Review | 145 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 133 | 130 |
| Code Refactoring | 147 | 134 |
| Bug Fixing | 149 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 132 | 126 |
| Code Documentation | 138 | 130 |
| Regex Writing | 127 | 124 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 128 | 122 |
| Frontend Component Design | 130 | 126 |
| Data Analysis | 134 | 130 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 136 | 130 |
| ETL Scripting | 138 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 134 | 130 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 134 | 130 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 127 | 126 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 124 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →