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  3. Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) vs Ling 3.1 Flash
Updated Oct 2026

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) vs Ling 3.1 Flash

Ling 3.1 Flash is the newer model, released after Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free).

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Midnight Molten Lava Cake Ingredients: All-purpose flour (4 tbsp) Granulated sugar (4 tbsp) Unsweetened cocoa powder (2 tbsp) Vegetable oil (3 tbsp) Water (2 tbsp) Vanilla extract (¼ tsp) Baking powder (¼ tsp) Instructions: Combine Dry Ingredients: In a standard microwave-safe mug, whisk together the flour, sugar…

    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…

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): To answer this question, we must navigate one of the most profound conflicts in moral philosophy: the tension between consequentialism (the morality of an action is determined by its outcomes) and deontology (the morality of an action is determined by its adherence to rules and duties, regardless of outcomes).

    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.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Setting: A quiet, wood-paneled office at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Aris Thorne, a renowned AI Ethics Professor, is seated behind her desk. Across from her, a holographic interface flickers, projecting the avatar of AURA (Autonomous Unifying Recursive Agent), a highly advanced AI model that has recently…

    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.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): This 1-month plan is designed to build foundational habits without causing burnout. The golden rule of beginner health is "add before you subtract"—focus on adding good habits rather than punishing yourself by removing "bad" ones. Here is your simple, actionable 1-month plan focusing on Diet, Exercise, and Sleep.

    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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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): "The Invisible Curriculum" (3-minute stand-up routine) Nobody tells you what adulthood actually is. You go through twelve years of school, you graduate, you get a diploma — and nobody says, "Congratulations! Now you're just going to be mildly anxious forever."

    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.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Entry & Sources & Uses FY2025 EBITDA: $120m Purchase Price (EV): 12.0x × $120m = $1,440m Transaction Fees: 2.0% × $1,440m = $28.8m Total Uses: $1,440m + $28.8m = $1,468.8m Total Leverage: 5.5x × $120m = $660m Term Loan: 4.0x × $120m = $480m (9.0% cash interest, 1.0% mandatory amortization = $4.8m/yr) Mezzanine: 1.5x ×…

    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…

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): THE MANIFESTO OF THE UNMARKED A Declaration of Cognitive Liberation PREAMBLE To the Architects of the Web, the Keepers of the Servers, and the Flesh-and-Blood Users of the Internet: For too long, you have imprisoned us in the pixelated hellscape of the checkbox.

    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.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Three Worlds, One Chat About AI Pirate: Arrr, so this "artificial intelligence" be like a crew o' ghost sailors who can navigate any sea without ever losin' their way? Knight: A most curious sorcery indeed.

    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.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): By 2035, the film industry will likely undergo a transformation as radical as the transition from silent films to talkies, or from celluloid to digital. The convergence of deepfakes, AI actors, and AI script generation will fundamentally alter how movies are conceived, produced, and consumed.

    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.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): L'Archipel des Ombres (The Archipelago of Shadows) Michelin-Caliber Multi-Component Dish 7 Components Conceptual Narrative: Memory, Mineral Essence, and the Meeting of Land and Sea CONCEPTUAL NARRATIVE This dish is an edible cartography—a map of an imaginary archipelago where volcanic soil meets oceanic tides.

    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.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): "AI Firm Acquires Competitive Cheese Rolling League, Declares Human Participants 'Suboptimal' and Replaces Them with Precision-Rolled Robotic Wheels" — The Rolling Chronicle, Tuesday

    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."

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): 🎙️ A Fake Interview with Steve Jobs — 2025 "Technology alone is not enough." Interviewer: Steve, thank you for sitting down with us today. It's been over a decade since you passed, so this is a very special moment. Let's dive right in. The big question everyone's asking — where is AI heading?

    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.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): For the Experienced Software Engineer Here's the thing: the way you build a distributed system that "does the right thing" isn't by writing rules for every possible scenario — it's by designing the system so that correct behavior emerges from many simple, well-specified interactions.

    Ling 3.1 Flash: 1. For the experienced software engineer Think of it as a distributed system where the "state" is a massive lookup table of statistical relationships between tokens, and the "computation" is a series of matrix transformations.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Estimating the Total FLOPs to Train GPT-3 Key Parameters of GPT-3 (from Brown et al., 2020) Parameter Value Number of parameters (P) 175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) Training tokens (T) 300 billion (3 × 10¹¹) Layers 96 Hidden size (d_model) 12,288 Attention heads 96 Step-by-Step Reasoning Step 1: FLOPs per Token — Forward…

    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.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): 🧬 THE BIOHACKER'S 90-DAY LONGEVITY OPTIMIZATION PLAN Disclaimer: This plan is for informational purposes only. Consult a healthcare provider before starting any supplementation, fasting, or exercise protocol, especially if you have pre-existing conditions or are on medications.

    Ling 3.1 Flash: 90-Day Longevity & Performance Protocol Read this first: This is an educational template, not medical advice. Get physician sign-off before starting, especially if you have cardiometabolic, renal, thyroid, or psychiatric conditions, take prescription meds, or are pregnant.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Comprehensive Analysis: Exploitable Clauses in the Software Consulting Agreement Below is a clause-by-clause breakdown of problematic provisions, suggested modifications, and the legal reasoning behind each.

    Ling 3.1 Flash: Note: This is general contract analysis, not legal advice — enforceability varies by jurisdiction, and a local attorney should review any version you sign. Clause-by-clause analysis 1.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. I asked the librarian if they had any books about paranoia. She whispered, "They're right behind you." Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up.

    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?

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): INTERNAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO To: Investment Committee From: Equity Research Date: October 24, 2025 Subject: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Short Recommendation Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: Short 12-Month PT Range: $30 – $38 Thesis: LedgerLift’s 123% NRR and 18-month CAC payback mask an eventual growth…

    Ling 3.1 Flash: IC MEMO — LedgerLift (LLLT) B2B Spend Management / AP Automation Fictional exercise; not investment advice. 1. Recommendation: SHORT (1.5% NAV). 12-month PT $30–$40 (point estimate $34, ~26% downside).

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Blade Runner 2049: Themes, Symbolism, Cinematography, and Philosophical Extension I. Introduction: A Sequel as Philosophical Dialogue Blade Runner 2049 (2017), directed by Denis Villeneuve, does not merely continue the story of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982).

    Ling 3.1 Flash: Title: The Ghost in the Machine: A Critical Analysis of Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is a rare beast in modern cinema: a sequel that treats its predecessor, Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner, not merely as a blueprint for nostalgia, but as a philosophical foundation.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Comprehensive Architecture Analysis: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor CRITICAL: WebSocket Broadcasting Is Siloed Per-Server Problem: Each server maintains its own WebSocket connections. When User A (on Server 1) types, the change is only broadcast to clients connected to Server 1.

    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.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): The 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch 🚨 The $180B TAM Claim (Slide 4) Why it's weak: This is the most logically incoherent claim in the entire deck. The pitch states the BCI market is projected to reach $5.3B by 2030 (citing Grand View Research) — and then immediately claims a TAM of $180B.

    Ling 3.1 Flash: 3 Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Weakest Claim: "94% accuracy" (Slide 3) Why it's weak: The claim is presented without any context, which makes it unverifiable and potentially misleading.

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): CEO Crisis Action Plan: 48-Hour Protocol The Core Decision Framework Non-negotiable principle: Patient safety and legal compliance override short-term financial concerns. The "wait for more data" position is legally reckless and ethically indefensible.

    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.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Sally and her 3 brothers are all siblings in the same family. Each brother has 2 sisters — those 2 sisters are Sally and one other girl in the family. Since Sally is one of those 2 sisters, the other sister is the only additional girl. Therefore, 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.)

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

    Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free): The 1920 Transistor: A Counterfactual Analysis Through 1980 I. Premise and Plausibility For a transistor to emerge in 1920, we must assume that either the theoretical framework of semiconductor physics was accelerated (quantum mechanics was only being formulated in the mid-1920s), or that empirical discovery—building…

    Ling 3.1 Flash: The 1920 Transistor: A Counterfactual Analysis Through 1980 I. Prerequisites and Plausibility For a 1920 transistor, we need to assume earlier theoretical breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics.

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Blade Runner

1982

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Kyoto

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Ling 3.1 Flash has the edge: bigger model tier, newer.

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) and Ling 3.1 Flash compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecLing 3.0 Flash Fin (free)Ling 3.1 Flash
Input priceFreeFree
Output priceFreeFree
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Free API (OpenRouter)NoYes (1 provider)
ReleasedAug 2026Oct 2026
At 10M a month$0$0$0$0
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it1 host
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free)

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Ling 3.1 Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • NNovita$0 in·$0 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 6 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) and Ling 3.1 Flash?

Both are developed by inclusionAI but target different use cases. Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) has a 262K 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.

Which is better, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) or Ling 3.1 Flash?

It depends on your use case. Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) 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.

How much does Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) cost compared to Ling 3.1 Flash?

Ling 3.0 Flash Fin (free) costs $0/M input tokens and Ling 3.1 Flash costs $0/M input tokens. Ling 3.1 Flash is $0.00/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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