inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | inclusionai | anthropic |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.06/M | $2.50/M |
| Output Price | $0.18/M | $12.50/M |
| Context Window | 131,072 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 32,768 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) costs $5.62, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 53.6 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 197 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash VL.
Only Ling 3.0 Flash VL offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others), Claude Opus 5 (batch) on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) in July 2026.
Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost or video input; pick Claude Opus 5 (batch) if you need long documents 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 | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 128 | 132 |
| Code Review | 121 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 126 | 117 |
| Code Refactoring | 119 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 125 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 118 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 121 | 129 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 117 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 114 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 123 | 132 |
| ETL Scripting | 117 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 132 | 121 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 117 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 125 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 125 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 121 | 136 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 113 |
| Blog Post Writing | 116 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →