Lyria 3 Pro Preview vs Ling-2.6-flash

Lyria 3 Pro Preview at $0 in and $0 out and Ling-2.6-flash at $0.011 in and $0.035 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Google

Free

for a client proposal

$0 in · $0 out / 1M

1.05M context · released 4 months ago

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Ling-2.6-flash

Inclusionai

0.01¢

for a client proposal

$0.011 in · $0.035 out / 1M

262K context · released 4 months ago

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.01¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Lyria 3 Pro Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Lyria 3 Pro Preview at $0 per million tokens.
Largest context: Lyria 3 Pro Preview at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Free

Ling-2.6-flash

0¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Free

Ling-2.6-flash

0.01¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Free

Ling-2.6-flash

0.19¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Free

Ling-2.6-flash

0.04¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Free

Ling-2.6-flash

0.3¢

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Ling-2.6-flash

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Ling-2.6-flash

Input / 1M tokens

$0.011

Output / 1M tokens

$0.035

Cached input / 1M

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$0.0023

Specs

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Ling-2.6-flash

Provider

Google

Inclusionai

Released

4 months ago

Context window

1.05M

262K

Max output

66K

33K

Input

Text and Images

Text

Output

Text and Audio

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

—

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Lyria 3 Pro Preview

Google

Free

for this task

Full pricing →

Ling-2.6-flash

Inclusionai

0¢

for this task

57% input · 43% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 124,223 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Lyria 3 Pro Preview has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Lyria 3 Pro Preview is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about free.

For images or files, Lyria 3 Pro Preview can read them directly; Ling-2.6-flash is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Lyria 3 Pro Preview pricing →Ling-2.6-flash pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Lyria 3 Pro Preview or Ling-2.6-flash?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Lyria 3 Pro Preview at free; Ling-2.6-flash at 0.01¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Lyria 3 Pro Preview — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Lyria 3 Pro Preview and Ling-2.6-flash side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.01¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.01¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.