Ling 3.0 Flash API Pricing
inclusionai · Budget · released 2026-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Ling 3.0 Flash has held the same list price since 2026-09-05 and is the 3rd cheapest of 142 Budget models. None of its 2 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.02 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.06 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.0042
- Context window: 262K
Ling 3.0 Flash market position
On blended price ($0.050 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 99% of Budget models: 3rd cheapest of 142. Across every category it is cheaper than 99% of priced text models in the catalogue: 3rd cheapest of 281.
Ling 3.0 Flash licence, size and capabilities
No licence is recorded for Ling 3.0 Flash, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted. Its published size is 5.1B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Reasoning, Agents. Filling its 262K context window once costs $0.0055 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $5 – $6 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $7 – $9 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $27 – $29 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $16 – $17 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $16 – $19 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $6 – $7 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $8 – $9 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $24 – $32 |
Ling 3.0 Flash pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 2 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 2 hosts: Novita at $0.02 input / $0.06 output per 1M tokens. The dearest, DeepInfra, charges 2.9x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Novita (the price shown above) | $0.02 | $0.06 |
| DeepInfra — bf16 | $0.06 | $0.18 |
Ling 3.0 Flash price history
Ling 3.0 Flash entered our daily price archive on 2026-09-05, 2026-08-15 being the first day we tracked any model. It listed at $0.02 input / $0.06 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-09-05. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Ling 3.0 Flash
- Next cheaper Budget model: Ling 3.0 Flash VL (inclusionai) at $0.049 blended, 2% less.
- Next more expensive: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta) at $0.071 blended, 41% more.
Common questions about Ling 3.0 Flash pricing
- How much does Ling 3.0 Flash cost?
- Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.02 per million input tokens and $0.06 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Ling 3.0 Flash offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.0042/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Ling 3.0 Flash cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Ling 3.0 Flash costs about $6 at list prices.
- Has the price of Ling 3.0 Flash changed?
- Ling 3.0 Flash entered our daily price archive on 2026-09-05, 2026-08-15 being the first day we tracked any model. It listed at $0.02 input / $0.06 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-09-05. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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