Ling-3.0-flash vs Claude Sonnet 4.5
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
inclusionAI · A · Open weights
Params
127.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
10 K
mit · commercial OK
anthropic · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
AA index
20.7
proprietary · 1M context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Ling-3.0-flash | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 127.5 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | BailingMoeV3ForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 262,144 | 1,000,000 |
| Licence | mit | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | — | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 9,544 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 44 K | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-02 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.021 | $3.00 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.063 | $15.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.084 | $18.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.0042 | $0.30 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 20.1 | 20.7 |
| AA Coding Index | 50.6 | 52.1 |
| AA Agentic Index | 19.3 | 15.8 |
| Max output tokens | 32,768 | 64,000 |
| API providers | 2 | 5 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Ling-3.0-flash
$0.084
Claude Sonnet 4.5
$18.00
Ling-3.0-flash is 214.3× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Ling-3.0-flash · fp16 @ 256K ctx
892.9 GB / 24 GB