inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

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 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.77, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 7.3 times cheaper for the same work.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 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 Flash Vision Exp on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp in August 2026.

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost or video input; pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 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.