Granite 4.2 8B vs Ling 3.1 Flash
Prices checked
Granite 4.2 8B and Ling 3.1 Flash split the 5 rounds this table counts: the maker's two prices, the cheapest price, the maker's blended price and context. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
Granite 4.2 8B
131k context · tool calling · open weights
$0.11/M tokensOpenRouter's own price · 5.1¢ per 1,000 pages
Ling 3.1 Flash
262k context · tool calling
$0.11/M tokensOpenRouter's own price · 5.9¢ per 1,000 pages
Maker's price in (lower wins)
$0.06/M
$0.07/M
Maker's price out (lower wins)
$0.25/M
$0.23/M
Cheapest price (lower wins)
none below the maker
none below the maker
Maker's price, blended (lower wins)
$0.11/M
$0.11/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
5.1¢
5.9¢
Context
131k tokens
262k tokens
Open weights
yes
not published
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
yes
Reads images
no
no
Reasoning
yes
yes
Released
31 Aug 2026
2 Oct 2026
Providers selling it
10
10
Price we measure against
OpenRouter
OpenRouter
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
no provider to check
no provider to check
Providers selling both · 7
NanoGPT$0.09 / $0.11
Nous Portal$0.11 / $0.11
OpenRouter$0.11 / $0.11
DeepInfra$0.11 / $0.45
Eden AI$0.11 / $0.45
Kilo Gateway$0.11 / $0.45
TrustedRouter$0.09 / $0.47
Granite 4.2 8B, then Ling 3.1 Flash, per million tokens.
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Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Granite 4.2 8B or Ling 3.1 Flash?
- Granite 4.2 8B, at $0.11 per million tokens against $0.11 for Ling 3.1 Flash, blended 3 in : 1 out, read on 21 Oct 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Granite 4.2 8B: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.11 is the number to beat. Ling 3.1 Flash: nobody sells it below OpenRouter's own price with a stated reason, so $0.11 is the number to beat.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 7 providers sell both: NanoGPT, Nous Portal, OpenRouter, DeepInfra, Eden AI, Kilo Gateway, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is NanoGPT.
- Which holds more context?
- Ling 3.1 Flash, at 262k tokens against 131k.
Prices exclude tax, read 21 Oct 2026 from each provider's own catalog. They are per M tokens, blended 3 in : 1 out, and a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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