inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash

inclusionai · Released Oct 2, 2026 BEST VALUE
DFO score #34 / 733
42.1 leaderboard score
Speed #162 / 349
105.3 tok/s
Input Price #202 / 733
$0.045 per 1M tokens
Output Price #203 / 733
$0.135 per 1M tokens
Context #113 / 733
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is developed by inclusionAI. It launched in October 2026, making it a current-generation release. On our leaderboard it earns Efficient-tier status, ranking #34 of 733 models in our overall business-suitability ranking. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #34 of 447, putting it in the top quartile for overall intelligence.

Its 1M-token context window is larger than 85% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash combines tool use, function calling, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.

At $0.045 input and $0.135 output per 1M tokens, inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is aggressively priced for high-volume use which makes it easy to justify for cost-sensitive, high-throughput deployments. inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash suits cost-sensitive or high-volume deployments where efficiency matters more than topping the benchmarks.

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DFO Verdict

inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash currently sits at #34 of 733 models on our board. We class it as a efficient-tier model.

#34 of 733 overall Up 4 this week

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 26.2 #34 of 447 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index Not published yet Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Nov 7, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 28, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.

Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.

Artificial Analysis no longer lists this model, so its indexes are converted from their older scale to stay comparable.

How inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash compares

InclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash ranks #34 of 447 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 85% of the models we list. At $0.05 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 72% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 95% of models #34
Speed: faster than 54% of models #162
Price: cheaper than 72% of models #202
Context: larger than 85% of models #113
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash $0.05 in $0.14 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Google: Gemini 4 Argon $2.00 in $10.00 out
OpenAI: GPT-6 Astra $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash 1M

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.05 $0.000045
Output $0.14 $0.000135

What would inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash cost your business?

Pick the job that looks most like yours, then fine-tune with the sliders. Estimates update live.

A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0.259/mo inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash $0.0001 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$7.92/mo OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Terra · best value $0.0026 per request

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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About inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash

Ling 3.1 Flash is a hybrid reasoning mixture-of-experts model from inclusionAI, with 25B active parameters out of 560B total.

Frequently asked questions about inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash

How much does inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash cost?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).

What can inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash do?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash supports tool use and function calling.

Who created inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is developed by inclusionAI and was released on October 2, 2026.

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