# Ling 3.0 Flash vs o4-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Ling 3.0 Flash and o4-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: October 20, 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 o4-mini 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 lower published output-token price.
- Ling 3.0 Flash has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | InclusionAI | OpenAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 45.06 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $1.10 / $4.40 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 33.4 (Supported · #88/132)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | 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 |
| Hermes Index | 21.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 31.6 (Supported · #93/153)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | 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 | 97.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DROP | Coming soon | 77.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 43.5 (Supported · #107/187)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 85.0% | 77.6% | 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 | 90% | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 20.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.2 (#70/152)
- o4-mini public-lane score: 83.9 (#55/152)

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | 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)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Ling 3.0 Flash | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Ling 3.0 Flash and o4-mini?

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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