Ling 3.0 Flash Fin on finance benchmarks
It is the cheapest model in the Finance Agent v2 top 25 at $0.04 per test.
What it is
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin is an open-weight, finance-labeled model from Ant Group, released September 3, 2026. It accepts text input only and has a 262k-token context window.
| Developer | Ant Group |
|---|---|
| Release date | Sep 3, 2026 |
| Context window | 262k tokens |
| Weights | Open |
| Public API price | $0.06 input / $0.18 output per million tokens, listed (source) |
What published results say
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance Agent v2 | 54.93% | #23 of 78 | Context: n=450 test questions, 3 runs · Oct 12, 2026 leaderboard · Vals AI · ±0.68 SEM |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | 36.83% | #60 of 74 | Context: n=51 test tasks · Oct 12, 2026 leaderboard · Vals AI · ±3.33 as published, type not stated |
| Tax Agent Bench | 20.60% | #44 of 69 | Context: n=193 test questions · Oct 12, 2026 leaderboard · Vals AI · ±2.91 as published, type not stated |
- Finance Agent v2 cost and time per task: $0.04, 6m15s.
What the benchmarks test: FAB v2, filing-based analyst research questions; EMB, building Excel financial models (LBO, DCF, M&A, comps); Tax Agent, research-grade US corporate tax questions, all-or-nothing grading. All three use held-out test sets and AI judges.
Limits
- The finance label does not carry over to modeling: 60th of 74 on the Excel Modeling Benchmark and 44th of 69 on Tax Agent Bench.
- Text only: no image, video or file input, according to Vals.
- Vals shows no Vals Index score for it.
- Benchmarks measure research and modeling answers, not trading results.
Head-to-head
Primary sources
- VerifiedLing 3.0 Flash Fin model page (Vals AI)Scores, margins, release date, context window and token prices checked October 14, 2026.
- VerifiedFinance Agent v2 leaderboard and methodology (Vals AI)Sample size, grading and update date checked October 14, 2026.
- VerifiedExcel Modeling Benchmark leaderboard and methodology (Vals AI)Sample size, grading and update date checked October 14, 2026.
- VerifiedTax Agent Bench leaderboard and methodology (Vals AI)Sample size, grading and update date checked October 14, 2026.
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