inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.10 and Kimi K3 costs $4.19, so Ling 3.0 Flash VL is about 39.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Kimi K3 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 18 tasks where they differ, Ling 3.0 Flash VL scores higher on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Kimi K3 on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Ling 3.0 Flash VL was released in September 2026 and Kimi K3 in July 2026.

Pick Ling 3.0 Flash VL if you need lower cost; pick Kimi K3 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.