# Ling 3.0 Flash vs Mistral Small 3.1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ling 3.0 Flash and Mistral Small 3.1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-mistral-small-3-1
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Ling 3.0 Flash and Mistral Small 3.1 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Ling 3.0 Flash has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InclusionAI | Mistral |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 45.04 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 22 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 32.5 (Supported · #81/124)
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MCP Atlas | 65.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 44.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 73.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 73.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 70.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 50.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 32.3 (Supported · #87/149)
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 56.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 72.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v5 | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 41.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 76 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: 18.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 64.0% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 49.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 43.6 (Supported · #103/181)
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 85.0% | 46.0% | Ling 3.0 Flash |
| GPQA-D | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 80.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 66.8% | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 10.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.2 (#64/128)
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 81.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Mistral Small 3.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | Mistral Small 3.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Ling 3.0 Flash and Mistral Small 3.1?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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