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Ling 3.1 Flash
Ling 3.1 Flash is inclusionAI's hybrid reasoning model for coding, tool use, planning, and long-context agent workflows. It has 560B total parameters with 25B active parameters per token. Thinking is enabled by default and can be turned off in settings.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · medium · high
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.075
- Output
- $0.22
- Cache read
- $0.015
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 262.1K
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Average output (7 days)
- 7.8K tokens
- Longer than 99% of 465 models
Side by side
Ling 3.1 Flash compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionaiThis model | GPT 5.6 TerraOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | inclusionai | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Sep 30, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 262.14K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 32.77K | 128KBest |
| Average output | 7.8K tokens | 556 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.075Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $0.22Best | $12.00 |
| Cache read | $0.015Best | $0.20 |
| Cache write | — | $2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 86.1 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 2.7 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 41.1 | 42.1Best |
| Coding Index | — | 76.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high | none, low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Ling 3.1 Flash
- GPT 5.6 Terra
Intelligence Index
- Ling 3.1 Flash41.1
- GPT 5.6 Terra42.1
Ling 3.1 Flash: Better than 86% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Ling 3.1 Flash: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 76.7
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 61.7%Top
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 59.6%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 23.6%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 24.5%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 1,397 EloTop
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 1,332 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 1,617 EloTop
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 1,452 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 10.0%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 24.0%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 83.0%Top
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 83.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 12.2%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 27.2%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 39.4%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 42.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Ling 3.1 Flash: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 92.5%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Ling 3.1 Flash: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 71.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 33.3%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 35.4%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 54.1%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 55.0%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Ling 3.1 Flash: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 57.6%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Ling 3.1 Flash: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 86.3%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Ling 3.1 Flash: 83.0%Top
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 83.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Ling 3.1 Flash
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.1 Flash | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #15 · 16.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Ling 3.1 Flash
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.1 Flash | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Homework | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1321.1 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1471.6 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1476.7 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Ling 3.1 Flash
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.1 Flash | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #13 · 160.1 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Ling 3.1 Flash
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.1 Flash | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #13 · 96.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #13 · 83.9% |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | Not in top 20 | #12 · 0.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- Ling 3.1 Flash
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | Ling 3.1 Flash | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1224 |
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1856 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 86.1 tok/s
- Faster than 57% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 2.7 s
- Quicker than 63% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 94.4%
- About $0.0183 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)inclusionai
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