Ling 3.1 Flash vs GPT-6.1 Sol
Ling 3.1 Flash took 75 min 28 s and $0.055 at list price, GPT-6.1 Sol took 12 min 10 s and $0.37 at list price. Ling 3.1 Flash took 6.2× as long, and GPT-6.1 Sol cost 6.7× as much.
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI · $0.225/M out · 1 HN pts
GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI · $10.00/M out · 1,166 HN pts
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Watch
Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.
Landing
Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.
Breakout
Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.
Logo
Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.
About
Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.
Patchbay is a small repair studio in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping vintage synthesizers alive. We are three people — a technician, a historian, and a musician — who believe that the instruments built in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s still have decades of sound left in them, if someone is willing to care for them properly.
We work on everything from early Moogs and Arps to Roland Junos and Oberheim OB-series, handling everything from dead power supplies and leaky batteries to full recaps and voice board restoration. Our workshop is small by design. We take on a limited number of instruments at a time, which means every synth that comes through our door gets our full attention.
Most of our clients are working musicians, collectors, and small studios across Europe, but we also welcome instruments with stories we'd love to hear. If you have a piece of synth history that needs care, we'd be glad to talk.
Patchbay is a three-person studio in Rotterdam, keeping vintage synthesizers in working hands. We repair the instruments that have picked up a crackle, lost a voice, drifted out of tune, or stopped making sound altogether.
We like the patient side of repair: tracing a fault, understanding an old circuit, and finding the right fix rather than the quickest workaround. Our aim is to make each instrument dependable without sanding away the character that made someone fall for it in the first place.
Some synths arrive with a clear problem. Others come with a story and a noise that only happens after twenty minutes. Either way, the work starts with listening—to the instrument and to the person who plays it.
We’re a small studio by choice. It keeps us close to the work, and to the musicians who trust us with something they want to keep making music with.
Specs and numbers
| Ling 3.1 Flash | GPT-6.1 Sol | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | inclusionAI | OpenAI |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 2 Oct 2026 | 29 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.075 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.225 | $10.00 |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,050,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 1 | 1,166 |
| Time for the six prompts | 75 min 28 s | 12 min 10 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.055 | $0.37 |
Ling 3.1 Flash was cheaper: $0.31 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. GPT-6.1 Sol was faster: 63 min 18 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: GPT-6.1 Sol's rebuild matched the screenshot at 97%; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: GPT-6.1 Sol's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it.