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Ling 3.0 Flash

inclusionAIReleased Jul 23, 2026Open weights · MITling-3.0-flash

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Reasoning
yes
Context
262K tokens
Max output
32k tokens
Input
text
API features
tools, JSON mode, seed, logprobs

Read Nov 4, 06:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from inclusionAI

Lowest input, per M$0.06at Novita AI
Cheapest cache, per M$0.012at Novita AI
Fastest95 tok/sat DeepInfra, on OpenRouter
Providers2serve this version

The cheapest host, Novita AI, does not state its weights precision. Weights and context per host

Sorted by cache price
ProviderInputOutputCache ↑tok/sFirst tokenUptime 24hChecked
Novita AIprecision not stated · 256K ctx · 32K out$0.06$0.18$0.012———Nov 4
DeepInfrabf16 · 128K ctx (256K) · 32K out$0.06$0.18$0.012950.43 s96.5%Nov 4

2 of 2 providers · prices per million tokens, read Nov 4, 06:00 UTC · speed: OpenRouter, median of the last 30 min, read Nov 4, 06:00 UTC · uptime: OpenRouter, last 24 h · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs

ProviderWeightsContextMax outputToolsStructured outputsReasoning
Novita AInot stated by the host256K32Kyesnoyes
DeepInfrabf16128K32Kyesnoyes

Weights, context, max output: from the host where its terms allow, else as declared to OpenRouter (hover for source and date) · features as declared to OpenRouter, not verified by us

Ling 3.0 Flash spec sheet, field by field, with sources

Ling 3.0 Flash spec sheetmaker-declared

What inclusionAI declares, from its own weights and docs. What each host serves is in the offers: both can be true.

Context window
262,144 tokens
Parameters
127,486,405,600≈ 127.5B
Active experts
8 of 512 active per token
Weight precision
bfloat16
License
MIT — open weights, permissiveScope: the license of the published weights only — not the maker's acceptable-use policy, nor the terms of the host you call.
Knowledge cutoff
not published by the maker
Modalities
text
Max output (official)
not published by the maker
Release date
not published by the maker
Maker lifecycle status
not published by the maker

Also declared in the weights

Architecture class
BailingMoeV3ForCausalLM
Layers
42
Vocabulary
157,184 tokens
Weights first published
August 2, 2026
Weights last updated
October 12, 2026

inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-flash · config.json @ fcc60a5 · read 2026-10-13 · 6 of 10 fields published by the maker

ProviderChatbot 1,000 in / 500 outRAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 outBatch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out
Novita AI$0.15$0.57$0.42
DeepInfra$0.15$0.57$0.42

What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job

Your own workload

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    open weights, MIT · fits 5 of the 14 workstations in our guideSelf-host guide ›
    Parameters
    124B
    5.1B active per token (MoE)
    Memory needed
    74 GB
    in INT4 · 149 GB in INT8
    Smallest cloud setup
    A100
    80 GB · $1.19/h, about $869 a month
    Worth it above
    4B tokens
    a month, against the cheapest API at $0.24 per M
    QuantizationMemorySmallest cloud GPUQuality
    INT4 (Q4)74 GBA100 · $1.19/hsmallest footprint, minor quality loss
    INT8 (Q8)149 GB2× H100 · $5.28/hnear-lossless
    FP16 (full)298 GB4× H100 · $10.56/hreference quality

    At home: in INT4 it fits the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB unified, ~96 usable) — about $3,487 once, or $0.1327/h over 3 years, electricity aside, at 256 GB/s of memory bandwidth — that, not FLOPS, sets tokens per second; it pays for itself after about 15B tokens against the cheapest API.

    Memory ≈ parameters × bytes × 1.2 · cloud: on-demand, 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator

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