inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Qwen3.7 Flash
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Qwen3.7 Flash is 1.6× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Qwen3.7 Flash accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 131K tokens.
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL is the newer model (released 2026-09-10).
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Qwen3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | inclusionAI | Qwen |
| Released | 2026-09-10 | 2026-07-27 |
| Input / 1M | $0.06 | $0.03 |
| Output / 1M | $0.18 | $0.13 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.012 | $0.0060 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.09 | $0.055 |
| Context | 131K | 1M |
| Max output | 33K | 66K |
| Accepts | text, image, video | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.18 | $0.13 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.71% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Ling 3.0 Flash VL
$6.30 per month$0.21 per day
Qwen3.7 Flash
$3.75 per month$0.13 per day
Qwen3.7 Flash saves $2.55 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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