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 37.8 on the Intelligence Index, with 50.6 for coding and 29.3 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.032 per 1M, that is roughly 1200 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 374 tokens per second, with 2.92s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0377, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
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 | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| 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.
1 / 5 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).