inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor costs $0.15, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 1.4 times cheaper for the same work.

Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor 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.

Across the 17 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 3 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Short-Form Summarization), Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor in August 2026.

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost; pick Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor 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.