Sakana: Fugu Max 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 Fugu Max costs $3.50, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 33.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Fugu Max 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.

Only Ling 3.0 Flash VL offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Fugu Max 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 Fugu Max if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost or video input.

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