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

Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) vs Ling 3.1 Flash

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

Mario Level UI Recreation

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

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Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free)
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Ling 3.1 Flash

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

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

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    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.

    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.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    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).

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

    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…

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

    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.

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

    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…

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

    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)…

    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).

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    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.

    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.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    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.

    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.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    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.

    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.

    Every model's answer to this prompt

Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Same pick

Game

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

Ling 3.1 FlashLing 3.1 Flash

The Matrix

1999

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Мастер и Маргарита

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

Price and specs

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

Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) and Ling 3.1 Flash compared across 18 shared prompts
SpecLing 3.0 Flash VL (free)Ling 3.1 Flash
Input priceFreeFree
Output priceFreeFree
Context window262K tokens262K tokens
Free API (OpenRouter)NoYes (1 provider)
ReleasedSep 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 VL (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 VL (free) and Ling 3.1 Flash?

Both are developed by inclusionAI but target different use cases. Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) has a 262K token context window vs Ling 3.1 Flash's 262K. You can compare their actual outputs across 18 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

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

It depends on your use case. Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) and Ling 3.1 Flash 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 Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) cost compared to Ling 3.1 Flash?

Ling 3.0 Flash VL (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.

How can I compare Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) and Ling 3.1 Flash on Rival?

This page shows a side-by-side comparison of Ling 3.0 Flash VL (free) 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.

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