inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and Qwen3.8 Max (0902) costs $3.50, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 33.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others), Qwen3.8 Max (0902) on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost; pick Qwen3.8 Max (0902) 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.