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inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-02.

inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendorinclusionaimoonshotai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score30.440.9
Input Price$0.02/M$0.67/M
Output Price$0.06/M$3.35/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,768235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision-✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index33.242.6

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.037 and Kimi K2.7 Code costs $1.51, so Ling 3.0 Flash is about 41.1 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.

Only Kimi K2.7 Code offers image input.

On our blended benchmark score Kimi K2.7 Code leads 40.9 to 30.4.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Kimi K2.7 Code on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Ling 3.0 Flash was released in July 2026 and Kimi K2.7 Code in June 2026.

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash if you need lower cost; pick Kimi K2.7 Code if you need image input, benchmark performance 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?

TaskinclusionAI: Ling 3.0 FlashMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation 135 136
Code Review 132 134
Code Completion 129 129
Code Refactoring 133 134
Bug Fixing 136 138
Unit Test Generation 125 126
Regex Writing 123 123
CI/CD Pipelines 121 122
Frontend Component Design 96 127
Data Analysis 129 130
ETL Scripting 127 128
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 128
OCR / Document Parsing 84 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 84 130
Long-Document Summarization 135 136
Short-Form Summarization 125 125
Blog Post Writing 123 124

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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