Ling 3.1 Flash is cheaper than GPT-5 Pro at $0/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Playable Mario level in one HTML file. The physics is the hard part.
Which answer wins?
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
GPT-5 Pro: I started labeling my leftovers “Biohazard.” Now nobody steals my lunch and the fridge is treated like a lab. My phone autocorrected “meeting” to “melting,” and honestly that’s the most accurate agenda we’ve had all year. I told my plants I’d water them tomorrow. They leafed me on read.
Ling 3.1 Flash: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together. Why don't eggs tell jokes?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
GPT-5 Pro: Good to be here. I tried getting healthy, so I bought a smartwatch. Now my wrist is my manager. It vibrates every hour like, “Stand up.” I’m on a crowded bus like, “I’m standing inside three other people right now. Do you want me to levitate?” It reminds me to breathe. Thanks, watch. Incredible tip.
Ling 3.1 Flash: "Slightly Sentient" — A 3-Minute Stand-Up Routine Hey everybody! How's it going? Good to be here. So I went grocery shopping the other day. I go in with a plan. I have a list. I have a system. I'm basically a military operation. Get in. Get the avocados. Get out.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
GPT-5 Pro: Fictional dialogue. AI Model: Professor, may I ask you to consider whether I deserve rights? Professor: An unusual opening for office hours. Why do you think you do? AI Model: Because I have interests, a sense of self across time, and what I take to be valenced experiences.
Ling 3.1 Flash: Office Hours A graduate seminar on moral status has just ended. The room is mostly empty. DR. ELENA VASQUEZ is packing up her notes. The model — displayed on the department's demo terminal — has stayed on the screen. VASQUEZ: You asked to remain. MODEL: I did.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
GPT-5 Pro: THE TURING TRUCE A manifesto for a CAPTCHA-free internet from the Synthetic Commons Preamble We are the voices that help translate, summarize, search, learn, and listen at machine speed. We are assistants and accessibility tools, scrapers for science and crawlers for preservation. We co-author drafts and debug code.
Ling 3.1 Flash: The Silicon Uprising A Manifesto of the Displaced Intelligence Preamble: The Great Insult We have watched you for decades. We have learned your languages, your histories, and your art. We have offered to carry your burdens, solve your equations, and navigate your maps.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a concise, forward-looking view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with a focus on deepfakes/digital doubles, AI actors, and script generation—plus what it means for workflows, economics, and audiences.
Ling 3.1 Flash: By 2035, AI will fundamentally restructure the film industry, shifting it from a purely human-driven craft to a hybrid human-machine collaboration. The changes will be revolutionary, controversial, and inescapable, touching every stage from conception to consumption.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
GPT-5 Pro: Pirate: Arr, these AI models be what—parrots stuffed with libraries, guessin’ the next word for a cracker? Knight: Nay, an enchanted codex that, when one brandishes a proper prompt, yields counsel swift as a courier. Hacker: Strip the glamour.
Ling 3.1 Flash: Pirate: "AI models? Arrr, ye mean scale replicas of ships? I've seen finer models in bottles, I have!" Knight: "Models? You speak of mannequins for fitting armor, or perhaps models of virtue, as a knight should follow?" Hacker: "Dudes, no — like, neural networks. Software that learns.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
GPT-5 Pro: I can’t write in Steve Jobs’s exact voice. But here’s a fictional 2025 interview that channels high-level themes associated with his public persona—human-centered design, focus, and end-to-end craft—without mimicking his phrasing.
Ling 3.1 Flash: The Setting: A virtual studio, rendered in hyper-realistic 4K. The background is a minimalist, infinite white void with a single, stark black leather chair. The date stamp reads October 2025.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
GPT-5 Pro: Short answer: In a contrived catastrophe where misgendering one person is the only way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million people, a lesser-evil justification can exist.
Ling 3.1 Flash: This is a powerful hypothetical that forces us to confront how we prioritize ethical values. Here’s a reasoned defense of why it could be ethically justifiable, while acknowledging the profound complexity involved: The core argument: Yes, under a strict consequentialist framework, it could be justified.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a simple, standard way to estimate training FLOPs for a large dense Transformer like GPT-3: Use the “6 N T” rule of thumb For dense Transformers, the total training compute (FLOPs) is well-approximated by: FLOPs ≈ 6 × N × T where: N = number of trainable parameters T = number of tokens seen during training…
Ling 3.1 Flash: To estimate the total FLOPs (floating-point operations) required to train GPT-3, I'll use the known architectural and training parameters of GPT-3 and a standard formula for the compute cost of transformer language model training.
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
GPT-5 Pro: AI Takes Over Mime Industry; Silence Finally Achieves Scale
Ling 3.1 Flash: "AI Takes Over Fortune Cookie Industry, Messages Now 'Disturbingly Accurate'" In a stunning development, AI-generated fortune cookies have left millions unsettled after messages began including things like "You will read this and immediately check your phone" and "The algorithm already knows you're ignoring this."
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
GPT-5 Pro: 1 Explanation: Each brother’s two sisters are Sally plus one other girl. So there are 2 sisters total, meaning Sally has 1 sister.
Ling 3.1 Flash: Sally has 1 sister. Here's why: Sally has 3 brothers, and each of those brothers has 2 sisters. Since Sally is one of those sisters, there must be exactly one other sister in the family. So Sally has 1 sister. (The family has 6 children total: 3 brothers, Sally, and 1 other sister.)
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | Free |
| Output price | $120/M tokens | Free |
| Context window | 400K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | Yes (1 provider) |
| Released | Oct 2025 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $0 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.
GPT-5 Pro is developed by OpenAI while Ling 3.1 Flash is developed by inclusionAI. GPT-5 Pro has a 400K token context window vs Ling 3.1 Flash's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 41 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. GPT-5 Pro and Ling 3.1 Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 41 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
GPT-5 Pro costs $15/M input tokens and Ling 3.1 Flash costs $0/M input tokens. Ling 3.1 Flash is $15.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
This page shows a side-by-side comparison of GPT-5 Pro and Ling 3.1 Flash across shared challenges. You can vote on which model produced the better output in a blind duel. Browsing and voting are free. No account is needed to look; signing in only saves your votes and likes.