inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | inclusionai | deepseek |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.06/M | $0.05/M |
| Output Price | $0.18/M | $0.57/M |
| Context Window | 131,072 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 32,768 | 943,718 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.19, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 1.8 times cheaper for the same work.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 197 pages for Ling 3.0 Flash VL.
Only Ling 3.0 Flash VL offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost or video input; pick DeepSeek V4.1 Flash if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 128 | 133 |
| Code Review | 121 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 126 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 119 | 136 |
| Bug Fixing | 125 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 118 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 121 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 114 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 123 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 117 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 132 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 125 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 125 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 121 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 116 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →