GPT-5 vs Ling 3.0 Flash
GPT-5 leads Ling 3.0 Flash on coding, 38.8 to 29.6 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Ling 3.0 Flash costs 82.3x less per output token ($0.1215 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 15 benchmarks have a result for both.
GPT-5 or Ling 3.0 Flash: which to pick
Pick GPT-5 for coding: it scores 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 29.6 for Ling 3.0 Flash.
Pick Ling 3.0 Flash for output tokens 82.3x cheaper ($0.1215 vs $10.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.05 against $0.39).
- Shared results
- 15
- GPT-5 only
- 98
- Ling 3.0 Flash only
- 9
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
GPT-5
GPT-5 scores 38.8 against 29.6.
3 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5
GPT-5 leads, 23.0 against 20.1.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Ling 3.0 Flash has a AA Agentic Index result, 19.3.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
GPT-5
GPT-5 leads, 85.6% against 84.8%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5 has a AIME result, 93.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
GPT-5
GPT-5 leads, 86.5% against 82.0%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1184.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5
GPT-5 takes 400K tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ling 3.0 Flash
GPT-5 $0.0063, Ling 3.0 Flash $0.0001 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Ling 3.0 Flash
GPT-5 $0.39, Ling 3.0 Flash $0.05.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5 38.8 from 3 benchmarks, Ling 3.0 Flash 29.6 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 8.9 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- MedCode (Vals AI): GPT-5 49.6% against Ling 3.0 Flash 32.3%, 17.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5 $10.00 against Ling 3.0 Flash $0.1215 per million output tokens, 82.3x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5 takes 400K tokens, Ling 3.0 Flash 262K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-5 | Bars | Ling 3.0 Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 1 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 1 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 12 | 3 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index31
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 88.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1418 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 37.8 | 50.6 | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 85.9% | 84.0% | GPT-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 69.0% | 65.2% | GPT-5 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 20.1% | 2.9% | GPT-5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.2% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.9% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 84.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 42.0% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 37.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 49.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 6.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| WeirdML | 60.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 807.6 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1436 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1420 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1427 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SciCode | 0.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 23.0 | 20.1 | GPT-5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.0 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 19.3 | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 30.3% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.0% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 86.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| METR time horizons | 69.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GDPval | 34.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| BALROG | 32.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 49.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 80.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 85.6% | 84.8% | GPT-5 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 81.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 85.4% | 85.5% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 28.5% | 23.7% | GPT-5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 65.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 9.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 56.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 36.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 23.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 12.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| VPCT | 66.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1415 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1419 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1419 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1252 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1278 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 72.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 93.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 96.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AA Math Index | 94.3 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 94.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 91.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 55.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 22.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| ProofBench | 18.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | 98.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1407 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1405 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 86.5% | 82.0% | GPT-5 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 86.0% | 79.7% | GPT-5 |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 66.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 61.1% | 61.9% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.4% | 70.7% | GPT-5 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 65.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 96.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.6% | 32.3% | GPT-5 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 50.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| GeoBench | 81.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1416 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1413 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1431 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1400 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 56.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1184 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1177 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1185 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1221 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1055 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1167 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1188 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1141 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.7% | Only Ling 3.0 Flash measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 43.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 83.7% | 80.9% | GPT-5 |
| IFBench | 73.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.2% | 73.0% | GPT-5 |
| DTBench | 90.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMCA | 40.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 97.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 86.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1406 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1388 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1365 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1232 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1409 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1397 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1422 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1416 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1409 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1360 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1409 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1399 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1407 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1431 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1426 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1399 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1384 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1379 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1231 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1267 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1246 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1219 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1212 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1263 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1210 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | Ling 3.0 Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ling 3.0 Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Ling 3.0 Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Ling 3.0 Flash costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-5 | inclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | inclusionAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | August 7, 2025 | July 23, 2026 |
| Context window | 400K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.0405 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $0.1215 |
| Coding index | 38.8 | 29.6 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.39 | $0.05 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5 better than Ling 3.0 Flash for coding?
Pick GPT-5 for coding: it scores 38.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 29.6 for Ling 3.0 Flash. Pick Ling 3.0 Flash for output tokens 82.3x cheaper ($0.1215 vs $10.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.05 against $0.39).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5 or Ling 3.0 Flash?
GPT-5 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.0405 and $0.1215. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, GPT-5 costs $0.39 and Ling 3.0 Flash $0.05.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5 or Ling 3.0 Flash?
GPT-5, with 400K tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5 vs Ling 3.0 Flash comparison based on?
15 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Ling 3.0 Flash's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.