inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.93, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 8.8 times cheaper for the same work.

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 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 Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite offers audio 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), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in July 2026.

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost; pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite if you need long documents, audio input 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.