inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash (free)

inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash (free)

inclusionai · Released Apr 21, 2026 Efficient
Intelligence #238 / 557
36.4 Our Score
Speed #24 / 259
212.9 tokens / sec
Input
Not priced
Output
Not priced
Context #99 / 560
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash (free) sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #238 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.000 input and $0.000 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use and function calling.

Editorial notes

Ling-2.6-flash is a free lightweight model with tool use and a 262K context, but limited intelligence and coding benchmarks restrict it to simpler tasks.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence4.4Technical5.2Value0Content5
Intelligence 4.4/10
Technical 5.2/10
Content 5/10
Value 0/10

Ling-2.6-flash is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI with 104B total parameters and 7.4B active parameters, designed for real-world agents that require fast responses, strong execution, and high token efficiency..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

26.2 Intelligence Index
23.2 Coding Index
53.6 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 59.3% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 6.2% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 27.1% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 21.2% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 86% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 57.4% Instruction following
LCR 25% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID inclusionai/ling-2.6-flash:free
Providerinclusionai
Release Date April 21, 2026
Context Length262,144 tokens
Max Completion32,768 tokens
Status Active

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