Ling 3.0 Flash VL API

inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl
Ling 3.0 Flash VL is inclusionAI's vision-language variant of Ling 3.0 Flash: a fast, low-cost multimodal chat model that accepts image, video and text input, with a 131K-token context window, reasoning, streaming, structured output and tool calling.
Context
131K tokens
Input
$0.082524 / 1M tokens
Output
$0.247572 / 1M tokens
Released
Sep 10, 2026

How to use Ling 3.0 Flash VL API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl.
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY},
    json={
      "model": "inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Hello!"
        }
      ]
    },
)
print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello!"
      }
    ]
  }),
});
console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Ling 3.0 Flash VL API Pricing

TypePrice
Input
$0.082524 / 1M tokens
Output
$0.247572 / 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.0165048 / 1M tokens

Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
$0.082524 / 1M tokens
$0.247572 / 1M tokens
131K tokens
Low-cost image and video understanding
$0.103155 / 1M tokens
$0.302588 / 1M tokens
262K tokens
Fast, low-cost reasoning and tool use at scale
$0.082524 / 1M tokens
$0.247572 / 1M tokens
262K tokens
Finance-domain reasoning over long documents
$0 / 1M (free)
$0 / 1M (free)
262K tokens
High-volume, zero-cost chat and reasoning tasks
$0.65 / 1M tokens
$3.9 / 1M tokens
1.05M tokens
Reasoning + agents

Frequently asked questions

Ling 3.0 Flash VL is the vision-language member of inclusionAI's Ling 3.0 Flash line: a fast, low-cost chat model that accepts image, video and text input and returns text.

It keeps the Flash line's speed-oriented design and adds visual understanding. Ling 3.0 Flash takes text only; the VL variant also accepts images and video.

inclusionAI, the AI research group at Ant Group.

It takes image, video and text input and returns text.

131,072 tokens, with up to 32,768 tokens of output.

Yes, it supports function calling and structured outputs, alongside streaming responses and reasoning.

High-volume multimodal work where per-request cost matters: document and screenshot understanding, image and video captioning, tagging and moderation pipelines.

Yes. The model also answers to the alias ling-3.0-flash-vl.

Send a request to the chat completions endpoint with the model id inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl. The request shape is the same as for any other chat model on AI/ML API.

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