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  3. Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)
Updated Sep 2026

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)

Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) is cheaper than Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta at $0/M vs $2/M input tokens.

Mario Level UI Recreation

Playable Mario level in one HTML file. The physics is the hard part.

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Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta
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Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

11 prompts
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: The transistor invented in 1920 (27 years early) would create a massive acceleration in electronics, computing, and related fields. Assuming it emerges from Western labs (e.g., an earlier Bell Labs equivalent in the US or UK), with germanium/silicon semiconductor work scaling in the 1920s–1930s, solid-state devices…

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): If the Transistor Had Been Invented in 1920: A Counterfactual Trajectory to 1980 Preconditions and plausibility By 1920, Karl Braun's cathode ray tube (1897) and Greenleaf Pickard's silicon crystal detector (1906) had already demonstrated semiconductor properties. Quantum theory was nascent (Planck, Bohr).

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: Fiesta Pantry Bowl (Savory) 7 Common Pantry Ingredients: Rice Canned black beans Canned corn Canned diced tomatoes Olive oil Cumin Salt Estimated times: 5 minutes prep, 25 minutes cook (total ~30 minutes). Serves 2–4. Instructions: In a medium pot, combine 1 cup rice with 2 cups water and ½ tsp salt.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): ✨ Midnight Stardust Pasta ✨ A silky, golden garlic butter pasta that tastes far more magical than its humble ingredients suggest. ⏱ Time Prep: 5 minutes Cook: 12 minutes Total: 17 minutes 🛒 Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Spaghetti (8 oz) Butter (4 tbsp) Olive oil (2 tbsp) Garlic (4 cloves, minced) Parmesan cheese (½…

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: 1-Month Starter Plan for Better Health and Longevity Starting your health journey doesn’t require overhauling your life overnight. This simple, beginner-friendly 1-month plan focuses on building sustainable habits in three foundational areas: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): 🌱 Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan 🥗 Key Area 1: Diet — Nourish Your Body Week 1: Add one extra serving of vegetables to your day (e.g., a handful of spinach in your morning eggs or a side salad at dinner). Week 2: Swap one sugary drink (soda, juice, sweetened coffee) per day for water or herbal tea.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: Here is a comprehensive analysis of the failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in the described architecture. I have grouped related issues for clarity while preserving all significant problems identified through team collaboration.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): Architecture Audit: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor Critical Issues Found: 25+ REAL-TIME COLLABORATION FAILURES Issue #1 — Last-Write-Wins Silently Destroys User Work Problem: If User A and User B both edit the same paragraph, the change with the later client timestamp wins.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: 1) Simplified LBO table (FY2026–2030, $m, rounded) Entry (end-FY2025): Rev $900m, EBITDA $120m, EV $1,440m (12.0x), trans fees $28.8m (2% of EV), total uses $1,468.8m. Debt $660m (TL $480m at 4.0x / 9% cash int / 1% annual amort of orig principal; Mezz $180m at 1.5x / 12% cash + 2% PIK). Equity $808.8m.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): HarborTech Services (HTS) — LBO Underwriting Analysis ENTRY SUMMARY (End FY2025) Item Value FY2025 EBITDA $120.0m Purchase EV (12.0x) $1,440.0m Transaction Fees (2.0%) $28.8m Total Uses $1,468.8m Term Loan (4.0x) $480.0m Mezzanine (1.5x) $180.0m Total Debt $660.0m Equity Check $808.8m YEAR-BY-YEAR MODEL (FY2026–FY2030…

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: Dish Name: "Siren's Lament" Conceptual Narrative: This dish draws from the Greek myth of the siren—whose enchanting song lures sailors to their doom—symbolizing the irresistible yet perilous pull between the forest and the sea.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): "MYCELIUM" A Celebration of the Hidden Network Beneath the Forest Floor 🍄 CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE Beneath every forest lies mycelium — the vast, invisible fungal network that connects trees, decomposes matter, and transforms the dead into life.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: All clauses in this contract are exploitable against the Contractor. The agreement is heavily one-sided, shifting nearly all risk, cost, and control to the Contractor while giving the Client maximum flexibility with minimal obligations.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): Comprehensive Analysis: Exploitative Clauses and Recommended Modifications This agreement is overwhelmingly one-sided. Below is a clause-by-clause breakdown of exploitative provisions, suggested modifications, and the legal reasoning behind each.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: The 3 weakest claims are: 1. "Reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it" (Vision slide) This is logically impossible and sounds like sci-fi hype rather than credible neuroscience.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Deck "Partnership discussions with Apple and Samsung" (Slide 5) Why it's weak: This is a classic credibility vacuum — a claim that's designed to impress but actively damages trust with informed investors.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: My Action Plan as CEO (Next 48 Hours) Core Decision and Overarching Reasoning: I will treat this as a confirmed safety signal requiring urgent action. Patient safety is non-negotiable—ethically (primum non nocere and responsibility to 4 million patients), legally (FDA regulations under 21 CFR 314.80 require reporting…

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): CEO 48-Hour Action Plan: Handling the Undisclosed Liver Failure Risk Guiding Philosophy Patient safety is non-negotiable and takes absolute priority over stock price, board politics, or legal convenience.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: Internal Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Short Recommendation 1. Recommendation Short. 12-month price target range: $28–$42. Base case implies ~$28/share; bull ~$42. LedgerLift trades at ~9x FY25 revenue (~$7.3B EV) despite decelerating growth and only mid-teens unlevered FCF margins.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO — LEDGERLIFT (LLLT) Classification: Internal — Investment Committee Date: June 2025 Analyst: [Portfolio Team] Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: SHORT 12-Month Price Target Range: $28–$38 (base-to-bull DCF; downside to $17 in bear) Thesis: LLLT trades at ~$46 (mkt cap ~$8.7B, EV ~$7.3B)…

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta: 1. To the experienced software engineer: Think of a large language model as an enormous, highly optimized prediction API running on a distributed cluster of thousands of GPUs. During training, it's fed petabytes of text from the internet and books.

    Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free): For the Experienced Software Engineer Think of a large language model not as a program with rules, but as a massively distributed lookup table that generalizes.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaGrok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta

The Matrix

1999

OK Computer

Radiohead

Dune

Frank Herbert

Paris

France

Portal 2

Shooter, Puzzle

Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)

Blade Runner

1982

Abbey Road

The Beatles

Cien años de soledad

Gabriel García Márquez

Kyoto

Japan

Hollow Knight

Platformer, Indie

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta has the edge: bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta and Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) compared across 18 shared prompts
SpecGrok 4.20 Multi-Agent BetaLing 3.0 Flash VL (free)
Input price$2/M tokensFree
Output price$6/M tokensFree
Context window2.0M tokens262K tokens
WeightsClosed—
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2026Sep 2026
At 10M a month$20.00$20.00$0$0
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it1 host
Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • xAI$1.25 in·$2.50 out·2M·77% up
Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 7 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta and Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)?

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta is developed by xAI while Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) is developed by inclusionAI. Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta has a 2.0M token context window vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)'s 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 18 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta or Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)?

It depends on your use case. Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta and Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 18 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta cost compared to Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)?

Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta costs $2/M input tokens and Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) costs $0/M input tokens. Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) is $2.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta and Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) on Rival?

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Grok 4.20 Multi-Agent Beta and Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) 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.

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