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Ling 3.0 tiny
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by InclusionAI
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RANKED #117 OF 244 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #199 OF 6,446 · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 56 VOICES
Ling-3.0-tiny is an efficient 7.9B parameter MoE model from inclusionAI with only 1.3B active parameters per token. Built for responsive agents, reliable instruction following and multi turn conversation, with a 256K context window, native
HAPPY10.0
20 mentions
SAD5.0
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 127 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Ling 3.0 tiny once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
7.9B total parameters (1.3B active per token MoE), a Q4/INT4 file is about 4.8 GB and FP8 is about 8.3 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$250 USEDINT4/Q4 quantization, ~65 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$520 NEWFP8 quantization, ~95 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDBF16 unquantized, ~130 tok/s, 64k+ context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LING 3.0 TINY?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Ling 3.0 tiny takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12GB | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~8 S★★★★★ | ~5 S★★★★★ | ~4 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~16 S★★★★★ | ~12 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~84 S★★★★★ | ~62 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~6.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.2 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.9 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Not enough discussion about Ling 3.0 tiny yet to call it. We found 56 posts but people did not say much either way.
39 POSTS · 17 COMMENTS · LEMMY · GITHUB · REDDIT · X · BLUESKY
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with text models like this one.
DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-10 · 328 UPVOTESinclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny · 8B A1.3B MoE· Hugging Face
inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny · 8B A1.3B MoE· Hugging Face
- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 197 UPVOTESLing 3.0 Tiny is the strongest, fastest and greatest model on my low end PC!
Ling 3.0 Tiny is the strongest, fastest and greatest model on my low end PC!
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 162 UPVOTESAntLing’ve open-sourced 6 Base Model checkpoints for Ling-3.0-tiny & Ling-3.0-flash, covering pre-trained, mid-trained, and WSM-merged…
AntLing’ve open-sourced 6 Base Model checkpoints for Ling-3.0-tiny & Ling-3.0-flash, covering pre-trained, mid-trained, and WSM-merged stages.
- X · 2026-08-19 · 141 UPVOTES🧵 We’ve open-sourced 6 Base Model checkpoints for Ling-3.0-tiny & Ling-3.0-flash, covering pre-trained, mid-trained, an
🧵 We’ve open-sourced 6 Base Model checkpoints for Ling-3.0-tiny & Ling-3.0-flash, covering pre-trained, mid-trained, an
- REDDIT · 2026-08-19 · 76 UPVOTESling 3.0 flash/tiny base models
ling 3.0 flash/tiny base models
- REDDIT · 2026-08-18 · 51 UPVOTESLing-3.0 (BailingMoE3) lands in llama.cpp mainline - Quick benchmarks on Intel Arc B580
Ling-3.0 (BailingMoE3) lands in llama.cpp mainline - Quick benchmarks on Intel Arc B580
- REDDIT · 2026-08-31 · 41 UPVOTESLocal AI News You Missed - August 2026
Local AI News You Missed - August 2026
- REDDIT · 2026-08-15 · 37 UPVOTESAgentic harness for small models
Agentic harness for small models
- X · 2026-08-19 · 31 UPVOTESInclusionAI just open-sourced the Ling-3.0-tiny and Ling-3.0-flash Base Models: six checkpoints from pretraining to fina
InclusionAI just open-sourced the Ling-3.0-tiny and Ling-3.0-flash Base Models: six checkpoints from pretraining to fina
- X · 2026-08-21 · 29 UPVOTESI mapped the labs' free tiers in the article. These platforms made free access a daily habit, not a one-time trial: > To
I mapped the labs' free tiers in the article. These platforms made free access a daily habit, not a one-time trial: > To
- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 20 UPVOTESnoctrex/Ling-3.0-tiny-MXFP4_MOE-GGUF · Hugging Face
noctrex/Ling-3.0-tiny-MXFP4_MOE-GGUF · Hugging Face
- BLUESKY · 2026-08-10 · 19 UPVOTESAlibaba Ant's Ling-3.0-tiny is now available as open-weight: BF16: huggingface.co/inclusionAI/... FP8: huggingface.co/i
Alibaba Ant's Ling-3.0-tiny is now available as open-weight: BF16: huggingface.co/inclusionAI/... FP8: huggingface.co/i