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Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Ling 3.0 Flash VL is inclusionAI's native multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 124B total parameters and 5.5B active parameters per token. It combines image and video understanding with reasoning and tool use for document analysis, charts, visual verification, and interface-based agent tasks. Thinking is enabled by default and can be turned off in settings.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Video input
- Input
- Text, Images, Video
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.06
- Output
- $0.18
- Cache read
- $0.012
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Average output (7 days)
- 843 tokens
- Longer than 66% of 465 models
Side by side
Ling 3.0 Flash VL compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionaiThis model | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017DeepSeekRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | inclusionai | DeepSeek |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 9, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 32.77K | 393.22KBest |
| Average output | 843 tokens | 465 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.06Best | $0.10 |
| Output | $0.18Best | $0.60 |
| Cache read | $0.012 | $0.003Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 154.0 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | 99.5% | 99.7%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 24.6 | 24.7Best |
| Coding Index | 57.0 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Video input | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high | none, low, high, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Intelligence Index
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL24.6
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 101724.7
Ling 3.0 Flash VL: Better than 59% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 57.0
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 15.7%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 47.8%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 1.1%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 14.2%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 984 Elo
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,118 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 1,161 Elo
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 1,340 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 8.4%Top
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 3.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 78.3%Top
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 55.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 5.0%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 22.0%Top
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 10.8%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 86.2%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 0.0%
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 5.6%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 44.2%Top
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 35.5%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL: 78.3%Top
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: 55.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.0 Flash VL | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #17 · 94.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #16 · 78.1% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.0 Flash VL | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
|---|---|---|
| Website | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1300 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1301 |
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1242 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1361 |
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1221 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.0 Flash VL | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 |
|---|---|---|
| Usage Share | Not in top 20 | #10 · 2.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Usage leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- About $0.06 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.5%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)inclusionai
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