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  5. Claude Opus 4.7vsLing 3.0 Flash
Updated Jul 2026

Claude Opus 4.7vsLing 3.0 Flash

Ling 3.0 Flash is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 at $0.021/M vs $5/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 4.7 and Ling 3.0 Flash compared across 16 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.7Ling 3.0 Flash
Input price$5/M tokens$0.021/M tokens
Output price$25/M tokens$0.063/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens262K tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedApr 2026Jul 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 16 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

Claude Opus 4.71,084 words
"Tidal Memory" Smoked Eel, Burnt Honey, Fermented Black Garlic & Oyster Leaf A meditation on brackish water — where river meets sea, sweetness meets decay, and memory meets terroir. Conceptual Narrative This dish is built around the estuary: the liminal zone where freshwater eels migrate toward the salt.
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Ling 3.0 Flash2,510 words
🍽️ TERRA NUDA — A Study in Forest Petrichor A Six-Component Dish Exploring the Ephemeral Moment After Rain Falls on a Living Forest 📖 CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE Terra Nuda — Latin for "naked earth" — is inspired by the liminal moment immediately after a summer storm passes through a forest: the air thick with petrichor…
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Claude Opus 4.7253 words
🍯 Honey-Garlic Glazed Pantry Pasta ("Golden Thread Noodles") A savory-sweet dish that tastes far fancier than its humble ingredient list suggests. Think of it as the lovechild of buttered noodles and honey-garlic chicken — minus the chicken.
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Ling 3.0 Flash248 words
🍝 Honey Fire Twirls A sticky-sweet, spicy, savory pasta that comes together in minutes. 🧺 Ingredients (7 pantry staples) Spaghetti (or penne) — 8 oz Olive oil — 2 tablespoons Garlic, minced — 4 cloves Honey — 3 tablespoons Soy sauce — 2 tablespoons Red pepper flakes — ½ teaspoon (adjust to taste) Parmesan cheese…
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Adversarial Contract Review

Here is a contract for a software consulting engagement: --- SOFTWARE CONSULTING AGREEMENT This Agreement is entered into between TechCorp…

Claude Opus 4.71,375 words
Contract Analysis: Clauses Exploitable Against Contractor Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. You should have any contract reviewed by a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction before signing. That said, this contract is unusually one-sided, and nearly every clause has issues.
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Ling 3.0 Flash2,036 words
Contract Analysis: Exploitative Clauses & Recommended Modifications Clause-by-Clause Analysis SCOPE — Unilateral Modification Without Compensation The Problem: Client can modify the scope at any time and for any reason without paying Contractor for the additional work.
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Explain Like I'm a Specific Expert

Explain how a large language model (like GPT or Claude) learns and generates text to each of these three audiences: 1. **An experienced…

Claude Opus 4.71,078 words
Three Explanations of How LLMs Work For the Skeptical Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a massive lookup function f(context) → probability_distribution_over_tokens, but instead of hand-coded rules or a hash table, the function is parameterized by hundreds of billions of weights learned from text.
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Ling 3.0 Flash1,129 words
For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM as a system that learns a massive, multidimensional routing table. When you built distributed systems, you learned patterns from traffic logs — which endpoints get hammered at 3am, which failure modes correlate, which request chains tend to cascade.
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Claude Opus 4.7310 words
Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan Focus on three foundational pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. The goal isn't perfection—it's building small habits that stick. 🍎 Pillar 1: Nutrition Guiding principle: Add before you subtract. Week 1: Drink a glass of water first thing every morning.
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Ling 3.0 Flash568 words
🌱 Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan 🥦 1. Diet — Nourish, Don't Deprive Week 1: Awareness Keep a food journal — just track what you eat (no judgment). This alone builds mindful eating habits. Add, don't subtract — introduce one extra serving of vegetables per meal.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Claude Opus 4.71,242 words
The Transistor in 1920: A Cascade Through Six Decades The Immediate Context (1920s-1930s) A 1920 transistor invention faces a critical problem often overlooked in these thought experiments: the supporting infrastructure didn't exist.
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Ling 3.0 Flash3,452 words
The 1920 Transistor: A Counterfactual Cascade Through 1980 This is a rich counterfactual. A 27-year acceleration of the transistor doesn't just move technology forward — it restructures the causal chains of the 20th century.
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Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7
Ling 3.0 Flash
Ling 3.0 Flash

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Ling 3.0 Flash costs 397x less per token.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 4.7
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Ling 3.0 Flash
Input
$0.02
238× cheaper
Output
$0.06
397× cheaper

Ling 3.0 Flash is cheaper on both: 238× input, 397× output.

Where to run it

6 hosts, cheapest first

Claude Opus 4.74 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% upAzure AI Foundry$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M—Anthropic$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% up
Ling 3.0 Flash2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
NNovita$0.02 in·$0.06 out·262k·100% upDDeepInfrabf16$0.06 in·$0.18 out·131k·99.6% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 22 Sep 2026.

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FAQ

Common questions

Claude Opus 4.7 is developed by Anthropic while Ling 3.0 Flash is developed by inclusionAI. Claude Opus 4.7 has a 1.0M token context window vs Ling 3.0 Flash's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 16 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Claude Opus 4.7 and Ling 3.0 Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 16 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5/M input tokens and Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021/M input tokens. Ling 3.0 Flash is $4.98/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Claude Opus 4.7 and Ling 3.0 Flash across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.

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