Ling 3.0 Flash Fin free access ends Sept 25

Announced: 27 Aug 2026
Effective: passed 25 Sept 2026
Source: the vendor’s own page · last checked 4 Oct 2026

What breaks

The free offer has a hard cutoff, and which model ID you chose determines what happens after it.

Requests using inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin-free start returning errors after September 25
Requests using inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin switch from free to standard billing rates after September 25

What to do

Pick the model ID that matches what you want to happen after September 25.

Use inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin if you want billing to continue automatically after the free period
Use inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin-free if you want requests to stop with an error after the free period
Run vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup to select either model ID for a coding agent

Advice confirmed 4 Oct 2026

What the vendor said

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin, a finance-focused model from Inclusion AI, is temporarily free on Vercel's AI Gateway through September 25. It offers a 256K-token context window, up to 32K output tokens, and supports reasoning and function calling for multi-step financial research workflows.