inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.037 and GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) costs $2.25, so Ling 3.0 Flash is about 61.2 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash.

Only GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) offers image input.

On our blended benchmark score GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) leads 80.2 to 30.4.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash if you need lower cost; pick GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) if you need long documents, 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.