Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Prime vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL

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 Prime costs $7.00, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 66.7 times cheaper for the same work.

Qwen3.8 Max Prime 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, Qwen3.8 Max Prime scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Ling 3.0 Flash VL on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others).

Pick Qwen3.8 Max Prime if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.