Ling 3.1 Flash vs Grok 4.7
Ling 3.1 Flash took 75 min 28 s and $0.055 at list price, Grok 4.7 took 18 min 1 s and $0.63 at list price. Ling 3.1 Flash took 4.2× as long, and Grok 4.7 cost 11× as much.
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI · $0.225/M out · 1 HN pts
Grok 4.7
xAI · $6.00/M out · 629 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 devoted to the repair of vintage synthesizers. We work on instruments that have already lived a long life on stages, in studios, and in spare rooms, and we treat each one as something worth keeping rather than replacing. Our benches are set up for careful diagnosis, component-level repair, and the slow work of bringing an old circuit back into reliable use.
The three of us share the shop, the tools, and the jobs. One person may trace a failing voice while another sources a part or recalibrates an oscillator; we pass instruments between us until the sound is right and the hardware is stable. Clients come to us with analog polys, early digital machines, drum boxes, and the odd modular that has been patched and repatched for decades. We listen first, then open the case.
We are not a museum and we are not a showroom. Patchbay exists so that working musicians, collectors, and curious owners in Rotterdam and beyond can keep playing the instruments they already love.
Specs and numbers
| Ling 3.1 Flash | Grok 4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | inclusionAI | xAI |
| Made in | China | US |
| Released | 2 Oct 2026 | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.075 | $2.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.225 | $6.00 |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 500,000 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | 1 | 629 |
| Time for the six prompts | 75 min 28 s | 18 min 1 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.055 | $0.63 |
Ling 3.1 Flash was cheaper: $0.57 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Grok 4.7 was faster: 57 min 27 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Grok 4.7's rebuild matched the screenshot at 59%; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Grok 4.7's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it.