Everything about Ling 3.0 Flash VL

Overview

Released on September 10, 2026, Ling 3.0 Flash VL is one of the 4 inclusionAI (Ant Group) models tracked on this site. Its weights are published: you can download it and run it on your own servers, or use one of the 7 API providers that list it on models.dev. It has a reasoning mode: it can "think" before answering, which helps with multi-step problems but uses more tokens, and therefore more money. It is a very recent release.

We file it under open-weight models (68 models in this category on the site).

Pricing and budget

Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.18 per million output tokens (median of 7 providers, checked on October 22, 2026).

To put it in perspective: reading 20,000 tokens (about thirty pages) and writing 2,000 costs roughly $0.002; a thousand of those tasks, $1.56.

That is 5.6 times cheaper than the median output price of open-weight models ($1).

To estimate your own budget, use the agent cost calculator.

Measured performance

As of October 22, 2026, Epoch AI publishes no score for Ling 3.0 Flash VL on our basket's benchmarks. To place it, rely on its specifications and price, then test it on your own cases.

Context and capabilities

Its context window reaches 131,072 tokens, roughly 197 pages of text at 500 words per page: enough for a medium-length document. A single answer can run to 32,768 tokens.

It accepts as input: text, image and video.

It can call tools (functions, APIs) and return structured JSON output, which makes it a possible foundation for an AI agent.

The weights are published on Hugging Face (inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash-VL). See also our list of open-source models.

What is it good for?

Given its category, Ling 3.0 Flash VL is mainly aimed at projects where you want control over your data or hosting, or want to adapt the model to your field.

Its very low cost (under half a cent for our sample task) means it can be called thousands of times a day.

Before adopting it, test it on your own examples: benchmarks measure standard tasks, not your job.

Alternatives

In the same category, the models closest to Ling 3.0 Flash VL are:

• Ling 3.0 Flash (inclusionAI (Ant Group), $0.18 per million output tokens)
• Laguna S 2.1 (Poolside, $0.18 per million output tokens)
• Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B (NVIDIA, $0.20 per million output tokens)
• Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (NVIDIA, $0.20 per million output tokens)