Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and inclusionAI/Ling-mini-2.0 from InclusionAI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 4.8
inclusionAI/Ling-mini-2.0Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
Ling-mini-2.0 is a small-sized, high-performance large language model based on the MoE architecture. It has a total of 16 billion parameters, but only activates 1.4 billion parameters per token (non-embedding 789 million), achieving extremely high generation speed. Thanks to the efficient MoE design and large-scale high-quality training data, despite activating only 1.4 billion parameters, Ling-mini-2.0 still demonstrates top-tier performance on downstream tasks comparable to dense LLMs under 10 billion parameters and even larger-scale MoE models.
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inclusionAI/Ling-mini-2.0: $0.272/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
inclusionAI/Ling-mini-2.0: 0.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and inclusionAI/Ling-mini-2.0 at 8.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; inclusionAI/Ling-mini-2.0 accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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