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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Ling 3.1 Flash

Both models accept text and charge $0.30 per 1M tokens for input. The difference that decides it is quality and cost: Ling 3.1 Flash scores 43.9 on the Intelligence Index against 22.2 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, and costs $0.45 per 1M tokens blended against $0.85. Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite if you need images, video, audio, PDFs or its 1.05M token context window.

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At a glance

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Blended price · per 1M tokens, lower is better

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite$0.85
Ling 3.1 Flash$0.45

Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite22.2
Ling 3.1 Flash43.9

Context window · tokens it can read at once

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1.05M
Ling 3.1 Flash262K

Where they sit among all 44 models

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite ranks 31st of the 43 models with an Intelligence Index, Ling 3.1 Flash 12th. Up and to the left is smarter for less money. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers, then click it to compare that model with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.

Intelligence: the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Price: blended per 1M tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output, on a log scale.

Which one to pick

Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite if

  • you need a longer context window (1.05M vs 262K tokens)
  • you need to send images, video, audio and PDFs

Pick Ling 3.1 Flash if

  • you want the lower bill ($0.45 vs $0.85 per 1M tokens blended)
  • you want the higher overall score (43.9 vs 22.2)
  • you care about Terminal-Bench 4.0 (terminal tasks): 32.8 vs 1
  • you care about Humanity's Last Exam (hard reasoning): 43.5 vs 18.8

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How smart is each one?

Of the 10 scores both models have, Ling 3.1 Flash is ahead on every one.

Every intelligence score we have

Out of 100, higher is better. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Ling 3.1 Flash

Overall

  • Intelligence Index

By area

  • Coding

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

  • Agentic work

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

By field of work

  • Finance & accounting

  • Legal

  • Healthcare & medicine

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

  • Economics

  • Engineering

  • Strategy & operations

Benchmarks

  • Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam

  • Science · GPQA Diamond

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

  • Scientific coding · SciCode

  • Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0

  • Tool use · τ-Bench Banking

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

  • Long documents · AA-LCR

Our tests

  • Rule that has to last 4 turns · our test, % of tries passed

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

  • Three bullets, no letter e · our test, % of tries passed

    Ling 3.1 Flash: not scored yet

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The specs

Spec Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Ling 3.1 Flash
Input price$0.30 per 1M$0.30 per 1M
Output price$2.50 per 1M$0.90 per 1M
Cost per test task$0.1927Not tested
Context window1.05M262K
Max output66K33K
AcceptsText, Image, Video, Audio, PDFText
Open weightsNoYes
LabGoogleInclusionAI
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2026
Knowledge cutoffMar 2026Not published

Blended price weighs 3 parts input to 1 part output. List prices from models.dev. Cost per test task from Artificial Analysis.

Questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Ling 3.1 Flash cheaper?

Ling 3.1 Flash is cheaper. It charges $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $0.90 per 1M output tokens, against $0.30 and $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Blended 3 parts input to 1 part output, that is $0.45 against $0.85 per 1M tokens.

Which is smarter, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Ling 3.1 Flash?

Ling 3.1 Flash scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 43.9 against 22.2 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. The biggest differences are on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (1 vs 32.8) and Humanity's Last Exam (18.8 vs 43.5).

Which has the longer context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts 1.05M tokens, against 262K for Ling 3.1 Flash.

Can I compare Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Ling 3.1 Flash on my own prompt?

Yes. ModelCompare sends one prompt to both models at once and shows each answer side by side with what it cost. You can try it free without an account.

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Where the numbers come from

Intelligence Index and benchmark scores are from Artificial Analysis, at each model’s highest effort, except SimpleQA, which is from Epoch AI, and the Uncensored score, which is from the UGI Leaderboard. The hallucination test is ours: questions with one exact answer, fake evidence pushed against right answers and requests that tempt a model to name packages that don’t exist. Prices are list prices from models.dev. Example answers come from our own test runs. Updated October 25, 2026.