inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL comes out ahead on the data we track: 3 advantages and none for Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B.
| Spec | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | inclusionAI | Meta |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.06 | $0.30 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $0.18 | $1.20 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.09 | $0.52 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 82% | 52% |
| Context window | 131K tokens (~197 pages) | 131K tokens (~197 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 22% | 22% |
| Max output per response | 33K tokens (~24,600 words) | 16K tokens (~12,300 words) |
| Input types | text, image, video | text, image |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | Yes | No |
| Listed since | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-09 |
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
| Workload (per month) | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $8.10 | $46.50 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $38.40 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $9.00 | $48.00 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $39.00 |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens) | $9.36 | $50.40 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $41.04 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $5.88 | $31.20 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $25.32 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $3.18 | $16.20 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $13.02 |
| Capability | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | read screenshots, charts and scanned pages |
| Audio input | — | — | take speech or audio directly |
| File / PDF input | — | — | accept documents without your own parsing step |
| Image output | — | — | generate images, not just text |
| Built-in web search | — | — | answer from live web results |
| Seed (reproducible sampling) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | repeat a generation for tests and evals |
| Log-probabilities | — | — | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
| Date | Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | $0.06 | $0.18 |
| 2026-10-07 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 2026-09-30 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.35 | $1.50 |
| 2026-09-26 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | $0.02 | $0.06 |
| 2026-09-21 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 |
| 2026-09-19 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.35 | $1.50 |
| 2026-09-18 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.10 |
| 2026-09-13 | Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.35 | $1.50 |
No advantage on the data we track — pick it for provider preference or output quality on your own prompts.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL comes out ahead on the data we track: 3 advantages and none for Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL is cheaper: $0.09 vs $0.52 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 83% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $8.10 against $46.50.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens; Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B costs $0.30 input and $1.20 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Both take 131K tokens per request — roughly 197 pages of text.
Tool calling — inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL: yes, Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B: yes. JSON-schema structured output — inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL: yes, Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B: yes.
Yes, both accept image input.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL has a free variant (inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free). Free variants usually carry tighter rate limits.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL can write up to 33K tokens (about 24,600 words) per response; Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B up to 16K (about 12,300 words).
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL was listed on 2026-09-10; Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B on 2026-08-09.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL: input price raised 65% ($0.02 → $0.06/1M), output price raised 66% ($0.06 → $0.18/1M) on 2026-10-14 (2 price changes since 2026-09-12). Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B: input price cut 14% ($0.35 → $0.30/1M), output price cut 20% ($1.50 → $1.20/1M) on 2026-10-07 (10 price changes since 2026-08-11).
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