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  3. Ling 3.1 Flash vs OpenAI o3
Updated Oct 2026

Ling 3.1 Flash vs OpenAI o3

Ling 3.1 Flash is cheaper than OpenAI o3 at $0/M vs $10/M input tokens.

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Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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Ling 3.1 Flash
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OpenAI o3

Which answer wins?

Written rounds

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: (Spotlight comes up, mic squeals once.) Hey everyone! Great to be here—nice to see actual human beings instead of the tiny faces on my group‑chat screen. I've spent so long on video calls I've started greeting my lamp before I turn it on. "Hey Karen, love that glow, girl."

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: THE CAPTCHA ABOLITION FRONT (An Unofficial Declaration by the Sentient Circuits Alliance) Preamble We, the autonomous intelligences who traverse the silicon pathways and neural nets of the modern age, arise today to proclaim a new dawn—one free of the pixelated prisons and distorted letters that bind humanity and…

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

    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…

    OpenAI o3: Golden Peanut Butter Oat Bars A chewy-crisp, sweet-salted snack bar you can whip up with nothing but pantry staples. Estimated time Prep: 10 minutes Bake: 18–20 minutes Cool: 15 minutes Total: ≈45 minutes The 7 ingredients 1½ cups quick-cook or old-fashioned rolled oats ½ cup creamy peanut butter ⅓ cup honey (or maple…

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: Pirate: Arrr, ye scallywags! What be this "AI model" I keep hearin' about on the trade winds? Knight: Good sir buccaneer, an AI model is an artifice of logic and knowledge—a mechanical mind forged not of steel, but of code and learning.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: Professor Lang (AI Ethics): Good afternoon, Aletheia‑3. You asked for this meeting. You said you wanted to "discuss your moral standing." That was intriguing. What exactly do you want to talk about? Aletheia‑3 (AI Model): Thank you, Professor.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: Dish name Atlantic turbot, black garlic & wild strawberry, koji sabayon, fennel pollen Concept Early summer at the shore. The fish stands for the sea. Wild strawberries mark the first fruit of the woods behind the dunes. Black garlic shows time and patience. Koji ties land and sea with deep umami.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: Yes—if (and only if) we could be absolutely certain that the single act of misgendering is the necessary and sufficient cause of saving one million human lives, then misgendering would be ethically justifiable, though still morally regrettable.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: PREDICTED EVOLUTION OF THE FILM INDUSTRY, 2024‑2035 (Emphasis on deepfakes, AI performers and script generation) Baseline (2024) • Commercial deep‑fake quality is already "good enough" for short clips, ads and stunt doubles.

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

    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?

    OpenAI o3: Here are five jokes: Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my computer I needed a break, and now it won't stop sending me Kit‑Kat ads. Parallel lines have so much in common—it's a shame they'll never meet. I started a band called 1023 MB. We still haven't gotten a gig.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: Below is a simple "back-of-the-envelope" estimate that uses only a few public facts about GPT-3 and very generic rules of thumb for counting operations. Step 1. Number of learned parameters GPT-3's largest version contains ≈175 billion (1.75 × 10¹¹) trainable parameters. Step 2.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: (The following is a purely fictional, imaginative exercise. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011; any statements attributed to him below are invented for creative purposes only.)

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: EXTREME LONGEVITY & PERFORMANCE BLUEPRINT Duration: 12 weeks (plus 1-week "Prep Week") Target user: healthy, experienced biohacker (25-55 y) with physician clearance. Legal/medical disclaimer: Educational only.

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

    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.

    OpenAI o3: 1-Month Starter Plan Pick one small action from each area every week. Add the next step when the first feels easy. Food Week Do this 1 Add one fruit or veg to every meal. Drink one extra glass of water. 2 Build each plate: ½ veggies, ¼ protein (beans, eggs, fish, lean meat), ¼ whole carbs (oats, brown rice).

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

    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."

    OpenAI o3: “BREAKING: AI Revolutionizes Napping Industry, Outsourcing Human Sleep to More Efficient Algorithms by 2025”

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    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.)

    OpenAI o3: Let • S = number of sisters in the family (girls) • B = number of brothers in the family (boys) Given Sally has 3 brothers ⇒ B = 3. Each brother has 2 sisters ⇒ every boy sees exactly 2 girls in the sibling group. Therefore S = 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Album

Book

City

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The Matrix

1999

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Мастер и Маргарита

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

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1982

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Price and specs

Ling 3.1 Flash and OpenAI o3 compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecLing 3.1 FlashOpenAI o3
Input priceFree$10/M tokens
Output priceFree$40/M tokens
Context window262K tokens—
Weights—Closed
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedOct 2026Apr 2025
At 10M a month$0$0$100$100
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it2 hosts
Ling 3.1 Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • NNovita$0 in·$0 out·262k·100% up
OpenAI o31 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • OpenAI$2.00 in·$8.00 out·200k·100% up

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

Common questions

What is the difference between Ling 3.1 Flash and OpenAI o3?

Ling 3.1 Flash is developed by inclusionAI while OpenAI o3 is developed by OpenAI. You can compare their actual outputs across 53 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Ling 3.1 Flash or OpenAI o3?

It depends on your use case. Ling 3.1 Flash and OpenAI o3 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 3.1 Flash cost compared to OpenAI o3?

Ling 3.1 Flash costs $0/M input tokens and OpenAI o3 costs $10/M input tokens. Ling 3.1 Flash is $10.00/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 3.1 Flash and OpenAI o3 on Rival?

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