inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | inclusionai | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.06/M | $0.75/M |
| Output Price | $0.18/M | $3.75/M |
| Context Window | 131,072 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 32,768 | 65,536 |
| 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 Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $1.69, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 16.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Gemini 3.7 Flash reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 197 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash VL.
Only Gemini 3.7 Flash offers audio input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Gemini 3.7 Flash on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and Gemini 3.7 Flash in August 2026.
Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 3.7 Flash if you need long documents, audio input 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 | Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 128 | 133 |
| Code Review | 121 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 126 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 119 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 125 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 118 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 121 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 114 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 123 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 117 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 132 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 128 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 125 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 125 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 121 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 116 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →