Ling 3.1 Flash vs Ember-1
Ling 3.1 Flash took 75 min 28 s and $0.055 at list price, Ember-1 took 25 min 56 s and $1.78 at list price. Ling 3.1 Flash took 2.9× as long, and Ember-1 cost 32× as much.
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI · $0.225/M out · 1 HN pts
Ember-1
Fireworks · $15.00/M out · 589 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 workshop in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping vintage synthesizers alive. We work on the machines that shaped electronic music — analog polysynths, temperamental drum machines, early digital oddities — replacing tired capacitors, rebuilding keybeds, and coaxing silent oscillators back into tune.
Between us we bring decades of experience in electronics, instrument design, and music-making, but what unites us is simpler: we believe these machines were built to be played, not displayed. Every repair happens by hand at our benches, with period-correct components wherever possible and thoughtful modern solutions where reliability demands it. We test everything the only way that matters — by listening.
Whether your Juno has lost a voice, your 808 has lost its kick, or a flea-market find needs a full restoration, we treat each instrument as if it were heading back to a studio, a stage, and a long life of making noise. Because it is.
Specs and numbers
| Ling 3.1 Flash | Ember-1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | inclusionAI | Fireworks |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 2 Oct 2026 | 24 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.075 | $3.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.225 | $15.00 |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 1 | 589 |
| Time for the six prompts | 75 min 28 s | 25 min 56 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.055 | $1.78 |
Ling 3.1 Flash was cheaper: $1.73 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Ember-1 was faster: 49 min 32 s less in total, and faster on 5 of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Ember-1's rebuild matched the screenshot at 67%; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Ember-1's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it.