Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Ling 2.6 Flash (free) 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
Ling 2.6 Flash (free)Claude 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-2.6-flash is an efficient instruction-tuned model developed by inclusionAI, with 104B total parameters and 7.4B active parameters. It is built for practical agent scenarios where low latency, reliable execution, and token efficiency matter. In tasks like coding, document understanding, and lightweight agent workflows, it offers competitive performance for its size while using noticeably fewer tokens, making it well-suited for cost-sensitive and high-throughput applications.
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Ling 2.6 Flash (free): $2/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Ling 2.6 Flash (free) accepts 262,100 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 32,000 tokens on Ling 2.6 Flash (free).
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Ling 2.6 Flash (free) accepts text input and supports long context.
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