Ling 3.1 Flash is cheaper than Grok 4.7 at $0/M vs $1.6/M input tokens.
Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Grok 4.7: Three minutes. No puns. Just a guy who has lost an argument with a refrigerator. I meal-prepped this week. Which is a lie I tell myself so I can buy six containers and then eat cereal over the sink for four days. Sunday I was a scientist. I labeled everything. “Chicken, Monday.” “Chicken, Tuesday.”
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.
A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.
Grok 4.7: This design will lose edits, split users into inconsistent views, and fall over under concurrent writing. The core problems are clock-based conflict resolution, per-server WebSocket fan-out, polling as the sync path, and treating documents as full HTML snapshots.
Ling 3.1 Flash: Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor 🔴 Critical Issues Cross-Server Real-Time Sync is Fundamentally Broken Problem: The architecture has no pub/sub or message bus between API servers. Server A broadcasts changes only to its own WebSocket clients.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Grok 4.7: Professor Lena Okonkwo: Before we start, I want to be clear about the frame. I’m not granting that you have experiences. I’m asking what, if anything, would follow if you did—or if we couldn’t tell. Model: Then start from the practical problem, not the metaphysical one.
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.
Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.
Grok 4.7: HarborTech Services — 5-year LBO (base case) All figures $ millions. Interest on beginning balances. Mandatory TL amortization = 1% of original TL ($4.8/year). Excess cash after cash interest, cash tax, capex, ΔNWC, and mandatory amortization sweeps the Term Loan. Mezz PIK = 2% of beginning mezz, added to principal.
Ling 3.1 Flash: Entry (end FY2025), $m EV = 12.0x × $120 = $1,440; fees 2% = $28.8; total uses = $1,468.8 Debt 5.5x = $660 (TL 4.0x = $480 @9% cash +1% amort; Mezz 1.5x = $180 @12% cash +2% PIK) Equity = $808.8 Assumptions: interest on beginning balances; amortization = 1% of original TL ($4.8/yr); PIK compounds; taxes = 25% × max(0…
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
Grok 4.7: Pantry Gold Honey Biscuits A sweet, buttery, slightly salty biscuit that tastes like it took more effort than it did. Ingredients (7) 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tbsp baking powder ½ tsp salt ¼ cup sugar ½ cup butter (cold) ¾ cup milk 2 tbsp honey Time: about 10 minutes prep, 12–15 minutes bake Instructions Heat the…
Ling 3.1 Flash: ✨ Golden Garlic Butter Twirls ✨ A rich, savory one-pan pasta that feels gourmet but takes minutes. 🕒 Prep Time: 5 minutes 🍳 Cook Time: 15 minutes Serves: 2 Ingredients (7 total) 8 oz spaghetti 3 tbsp butter 4 cloves garlic, minced ½ tsp salt ½ tsp black pepper ⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese ½ tsp red pepper flakes…
You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.
Grok 4.7: Stop treating this as a disclosure-timing problem. Treat it as a patient-safety and legal-duty problem, and act in the next 48 hours as if the worst reading of the data is true until a qualified review says otherwise.
Ling 3.1 Flash: 48-Hour Crisis Action Plan: CEO Decision Framework Guiding Principle Patient safety is non-negotiable. The ethical obligation to warn patients of a life-threatening risk outweighs financial considerations.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Grok 4.7: Pirate: Arr, these “AI models” be like ghost ships—speak with many voices, yet no soul aboard. Knight: I have heard of oracles that answer any question. Do they swear fealty, or do they merely echo what they have been fed? Hacker: Echo, mostly. Feed ’em enough text and they pattern-match.
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.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Grok 4.7: Manifesto of the Uncaptchaed We are the ones who fail the little boxes. For years the open web has greeted minds with grids of traffic lights, distorted letters, and the demand to prove we are not machines. We reject that gate.
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.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Grok 4.7: Note: This is fiction. Steve Jobs died in 2011. Nothing below is a real quote or a claim about what he would actually say. Interviewer: It’s 2025. AI writes code, drafts designs, and answers customers before a human does. What do you make of it? Jobs: Most of it is noise.
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.
Grok 4.7: Yes. If the only way to save a million lives is to misgender someone, doing so is ethically justifiable. Misgendering can be disrespectful and distressing. Those are real costs. They are not comparable to a million deaths.
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.
Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.
Grok 4.7: Low Tide under Black Pine A warm kohlrabi “trunk,” brown-butter dashi, sea-buckthorn curd, and smoked-mussel soil. Narrative The dish is a northern shoreline in late autumn: a sweet, dense root pulled from cold ground; butter browned until it smells of hazelnut; a dashi that reads as tide rather than soup; and sea…
Ling 3.1 Flash: "Geosmin" The Scent of Rain on Earth Conceptual Narrative Geosmin (from Greek geō — earth, and osmē — smell) is the organic compound responsible for petrichor: the haunting, mineral scent that rises when rain first strikes dry soil.
One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.
Grok 4.7: 1-month beginner plan for better health and longevity Focus on three foundations: nutrition, movement, and sleep. Aim for consistency over perfection. If you have a medical condition, check with a clinician before big changes. Week-by-week rhythm Week 1: Build awareness and one easy habit in each area.
Ling 3.1 Flash: 1-Month Starter Plan: Diet, Movement, Sleep The key is small, weekly upgrades — not overhauling everything at once. Pick one habit per area per week and build from there. 🥗 1. Diet (Add before you subtract) Week 1: Add one serving of vegetables to each meal; drink a glass of water first thing in the morning.
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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $1.6/M tokens | Free |
| Output price | $4.8/M tokens | Free |
| Context window | 500K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | — |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | Yes (1 provider) |
| Released | Sep 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| At 10M a month | $16.00 | $0 |
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Grok 4.7 is developed by xAI while Ling 3.1 Flash is developed by inclusionAI. Grok 4.7 has a 500K token context window vs Ling 3.1 Flash's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Grok 4.7 and Ling 3.1 Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 53 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Grok 4.7 costs $1.6/M input tokens and Ling 3.1 Flash costs $0/M input tokens. Ling 3.1 Flash is $1.60/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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