Ling 3.0 Flash vs Qwen3.8-27B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Ling 3.0 Flash is developed by InclusionAI, while Qwen3.8-27B comes from Alibaba. Both were released in August 2026. Ling 3.0 Flash is the larger model at roughly 124 billion parameters, against 28 billion for Qwen3.8-27B.
The two models share 4 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8-27B leads on 4 of them. The widest gaps are on Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Qwen3.8-27B scores 73.0% against 57.0%; LiveCodeBench v6, where Qwen3.8-27B scores 90.3% against 82.8%. Averaged across everything we track, Ling 3.0 Flash sits at 68.5% and Qwen3.8-27B at 66.3%.
Ling 3.0 Flash is available through an API at $0.06 per million input tokens with a 131K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.8-27B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.8-27B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | InclusionAI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 4, 2026 | August 14, 2026 |
| Parameters | 124B | 28B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 131K | — |
| Context (output) | 131K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.06 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.18 | — |
| Average Score | 68.5% | 66.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 57.0% | 73.0% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 82.8% | 90.3% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 56.6% | 61.7% |
| IFBench | 74.5% | 79.5% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Ling 3.0 Flash — 0.7, Qwen3.8-27B — 0.7.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/4/2026 and 8/14/2026.
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