Efficient model for low-latency assistance, extraction, and routine automation
Ling 3.0 Flash by inclusionai is offered by 5 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.075 per 1M input tokens and $0.22 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is OpenRouter at $0.021 / $0.063 per 1M, about 3.6× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
Artificial Analysis rates it 20.1 on the Intelligence Index, with 50.6 for coding and 19.3 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.032 per 1M, that is roughly 638 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 347 tokens per second, with 2.55s to the first token.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 256,000 to 262,144, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning and tool use. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.075 | $0.22 | $0.015 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.