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Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)
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by OpenAI
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPILONG CONTEXTFREE TO TRYCLOSED
RANKED #111 OF 237 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #189 OF 6,560 · VIBE SCORE 5.9 · 60 VOICES
Ling 3.0 Tiny is a compact 7.9B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 1.3B parameters active per token. It is designed for responsive agents, reliable instruction following, natural multi-turn conversations, long-context work, and functio
HAPPY10.0
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VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 174 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 (free) once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
7.9B parameters (Mixture of Experts, 1.3B active), a Q4 file is about 4.8 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
12 GB VRAM
~$220 USEDQ4_K_M, ~50 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac mini M4 (16GB RAM)
16 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$799 NEWFP8 or Q8_0, ~85 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$1600 USEDBF16 (full precision), ~120 tok/s, 131k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN LING 3.0 TINY (FREE)?
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 (free) takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac mini M4 (16GB RAM) | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~10 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ | ~4 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~30 S★★★★★ | ~18 S★★★★★ | ~13 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~2.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~67 S★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.5 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~5 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.1 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 (free) yet to call it. We found 60 posts but people did not say much either way.
41 POSTS · 19 COMMENTS · REDDIT · X · LEMMY · GITHUB · 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.
GLM 5.3> 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
- X · 2026-08-12 · 42 UPVOTESLing-3.0-tiny is showing where AI is heading: more capability without demanding more compute. Strong reasoning, agentic
Ling-3.0-tiny is showing where AI is heading: more capability without demanding more compute. Strong reasoning, agentic
- 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