Sakana: Fugu Max vs inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Sakana: Fugu Max | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | sakana | inclusionai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $2.00/M | $0.02/M |
| Output Price | $6.00/M | $0.06/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 262,144 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 32,768 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | - |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.037 and Fugu Max costs $3.50, so Ling 3.0 Flash is about 95.2 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 393 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash.
Only Fugu Max offers image input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Fugu Max scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Ling 3.0 Flash on 5 (Code Completion, Regex Writing, JSON Extraction and others).
Fugu Max was released in September 2026 and Ling 3.0 Flash in July 2026.
Pick Fugu Max if you need long documents, image input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Ling 3.0 Flash 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.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Sakana: Fugu Max | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 131 |
| Code Review | 132 | 126 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 121 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 118 | 120 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 117 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 92 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 128 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 132 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 119 | 130 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 83 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 83 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 114 | 124 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →