# dots3-note Preview vs Ling 3.0 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for dots3-note Preview and Ling 3.0 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-ling-3-0-flash
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick dots3-note Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- dots3-note Preview leads overall 62.64 to 45.36.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 56.4 for dots3-note Preview and 33.2 for Ling 3.0 Flash.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 52.6% and 22.7%.
- Ling 3.0 Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- dots3-note Preview also has the larger context window at 512K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Dots Studio | InclusionAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 512K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 62.64 | 45.36 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 22 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Estimated · #28/117)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 33.2 (Supported · #73/117)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 52.8% | 44.8% | dots3-note Preview |
| APEX-Agents | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.3% | 72.2% | dots3-note Preview |
| HLE w/ tools | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 78.9% | 73.6% | dots3-note Preview |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon |
| DRACO | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 50.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 34.8 (Supported · #80/142)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3056.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 75.7% | 72.4% | dots3-note Preview |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61% | 56.6% | dots3-note Preview |
| NL2Repo | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 41.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 72.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 67.2 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 43.3 (Supported · #83/168)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 52.6% | 22.7% | dots3-note Preview |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 84.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: dots3-note Preview
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 85.2 (#37/124)
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 72.1 (#63/124)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 80.4% | 74.5% | dots3-note Preview |
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 72.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | 90.9% | 83.7% | dots3-note Preview |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 93.2% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, dots3-note Preview or Ling 3.0 Flash?

dots3-note Preview is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between dots3-note Preview and Ling 3.0 Flash?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 56.4 for dots3-note Preview and 33.2 for Ling 3.0 Flash.

### How many benchmarks does dots3-note Preview cover on BenchLM?

dots3-note Preview currently has 31 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Ling 3.0 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Ling 3.0 Flash currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-vl)
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- [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Ling 3.0 Flash FP8](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8)

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