Ling 3.0 Flash vs Qwen3.8 Flash: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Ling 3.0 Flash is developed by InclusionAI, while Qwen3.8 Flash comes from Alibaba. Both were released in August 2026. The two are similar in size, at about 124 billion and 125 billion parameters respectively.
The two models share 4 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Flash leads on 4 of them. The widest gaps are on LiveCodeBench v6, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 91.9% against 82.8%; SWE-bench Multilingual, where Qwen3.8 Flash scores 81.0% against 72.4%. Averaged across everything we track, Ling 3.0 Flash sits at 68.5% and Qwen3.8 Flash at 68.5%.
Ling 3.0 Flash is the cheaper API at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Qwen3.8 Flash at $0.15 and $0.47. Qwen3.8 Flash takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 131K for Ling 3.0 Flash. Ling 3.0 Flash accepts text as input, while Qwen3.8 Flash accepts text, images, and video.
| Characteristic | Ling 3.0 Flash | Qwen3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Company | InclusionAI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 4, 2026 | August 26, 2026 |
| Parameters | 124B | 125B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 131K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 131K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.06 | $0.15 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.18 | $0.47 |
| Average Score | 68.5% | 68.5% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 82.8% | 91.9% |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 72.4% | 81.0% |
| IFBench | 74.5% | 81.3% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 56.6% | 62.5% |
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Verdict
Qwen3.8 Flash leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Ling 3.0 Flash — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Flash — 0.7.
Ling 3.0 Flash is 2.6x cheaper: input $0.06/1M vs $0.15/1M tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash supports a larger context: 1M vs 131K tokens.
Qwen3.8 Flash is newer: released 8/26/2026 vs 8/4/2026.
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