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 Specialist-tier status, ranking #22 of 697 models in our overall business-suitability ranking. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #22 of 435, putting it in among the very best models we track for overall intelligence.
Its 262K-token context window is larger than 75% 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 $0.000 input and $0.000 output per 1M tokens, inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is free to use. inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is best deployed where its particular strengths line up with the task, rather than as a general-purpose frontier model.
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DFO Verdict
inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash currently sits at #22 of 697 models on our board. We class it as a specialist-tier model.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 8, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 2, 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.
This model was released recently. Benchmark figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as independent testing is finalised.
How inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash compares
InclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash ranks #22 of 435 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 75% of the models we list. inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
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.
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Frequently asked questions about inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash
How much does inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash cost?
inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
What is the context window of inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash?
inclusionAI: Ling 3.1 Flash has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).
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.
Benchmarks from Artificial Analysis, pricing from the OpenRouter API, and verdicts from our own testing.
Last updated: October 8, 2026 8:39 pm