Neither wins outright: inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL is the pick when cost matters at scale, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when you need file / PDF input.
| Spec | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Inclusionai | Mistral AI |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.06 | $0.20 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $0.18 | $1.00 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.09 | $0.40 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 81% | 58% |
| Context window | 131K tokens (~197 pages) | 131K tokens (~197 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 23% | 23% |
| Max output per response | 33K tokens (~24,600 words) | 105K tokens (~78,600 words) |
| Input types | text, image, video | text, image, file |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | Yes | No |
| Listed since | 2026-09-10 | 2025-08-13 |
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 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $8.10 | $35.00 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $26.90 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $9.00 | $34.00 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $25.00 |
| 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 | $36.00 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $26.64 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $5.88 | $22.00 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $16.12 |
| 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 | $11.00 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL saves $7.82 |
| Capability | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) | 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 | — | 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 | — | ✓ Yes | 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 |
| 2026-09-26 | inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL | $0.02 | $0.06 |
| 2026-09-10 | Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) | $0.20 | $1.00 |
Neither wins outright: inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL is the pick when cost matters at scale, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when you need file / PDF input. In short: inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL when cost matters at scale, you need reasoning / thinking mode, you want to prototype at zero cost, you want the newer model; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) when you need file / PDF input, you generate long outputs in one go.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL is cheaper: $0.09 vs $0.40 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 78% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $8.10 against $35.00.
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.18 per 1M output tokens; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) costs $0.20 input and $1.00 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, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): yes. JSON-schema structured output — inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL: yes, Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): 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; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) up to 105K (about 78,600 words).
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Flash VL was listed on 2026-09-10; Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch) on 2025-08-13.
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). Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.1 (batch): input price cut 50% ($0.40 → $0.20/1M), output price cut 50% ($2.00 → $1.00/1M) on 2026-09-10.
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