inclusionAI · Released Sep 10, 2026Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Native multimodal hybrid MoE model for image and video understanding, reasoning, and visual agents.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.06per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.18per 1M tokens
- Context
- 262K33K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.06per million tokens
- Output
- $0.18per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.09cheaper than 91% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.21 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $2.40 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $24.00 |
Median of 7 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Ling 3.0 Flash VL yet.
The details
- Lab
- inclusionAI
- Released
- Sep 10, 2026
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens
- Max output
- 32,768 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Always on
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights · MIT
- Availability
- 7 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Ling 3.0 Flash VL
How much does Ling 3.0 Flash VL cost?
Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.06 input / $0.18 output per million tokens (median across 7 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.09 per million tokens, cheaper than 91% of the 445 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Ling 3.0 Flash VL?
Ling 3.0 Flash VL accepts up to 262,144 tokens per request and can write up to 32,768 tokens in one response.
How good is Ling 3.0 Flash VL?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Ling 3.0 Flash VL yet.
Is Ling 3.0 Flash VL open source?
Yes. inclusionAI publishes the weights under the MIT licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Ling 3.0 Flash VL support?
Ling 3.0 Flash VL accepts text, images and video and replies in text. It is a reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Ling 3.0 Flash VL released?
inclusionAI released Ling 3.0 Flash VL on Sep 10, 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Ling 3.0 Flash VL?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B (NVIDIA, $0.055 / $0.20), Granite 4.2 8B (IBM, $0.06 / $0.15), Laguna S 2.1 (Poolside, $0.09 / $0.18) and DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT (Google, $0.05 / $0.15).