inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash vs inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash is cheaper: $7.35 a month at OpenRouter, against $21.00 for inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl at OpenRouter — 2.9× the cost.
Cheapest on each
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash
$7.35/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.021 in, $0.063 out per million
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl
$21.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.06 in, $0.18 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 262K | 131K |
| Accepts | Aa | Aa · IMG · VID |
| Sellers | 2 | 2 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.021 / M | $0.06 / M |
| Cached input rate | $0.0042 / M | $0.012 / M |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash /mo | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $7.352026-10-27 | $21.002026-10-27 |
| Novita AI | $21.002026-10-22 | $26.002026-10-22 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.