Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 87.3 | 30.4 |
| Input Price | $2.50/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $12.50/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 | 83.8 | 33.2 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.037 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) costs $5.62, so Ling 3.0 Flash is about 153.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Opus 5 (batch) reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash.
Only Claude Opus 5 (batch) offers image input.
On our blended benchmark score Claude Opus 5 (batch) leads 87.3 to 30.4.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Claude Opus 5 (batch) scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Ling 3.0 Flash on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Pick Claude Opus 5 (batch) if you need long documents, image input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ling 3.0 Flash 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 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 142 | 135 |
| Code Review | 147 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 149 | 133 |
| Bug Fixing | 151 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 134 | 125 |
| Code Documentation | 136 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 125 | 123 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 130 | 121 |
| Frontend Component Design | 132 | 96 |
| Data Analysis | 136 | 129 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 135 | 129 |
| ETL Scripting | 139 | 127 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 117 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 135 | 84 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 135 | 84 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 149 | 135 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 117 | 125 |
| Blog Post Writing | 130 | 123 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →