inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)

inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)

inclusionai · Released Aug 6, 2026 NEW
Intelligence #529 / 688
25.4 our score
Speed #50 / 314
169.9 tok/s
Input Price
Not priced
Output Price
Not priced
Context #181 / 688
262,144 tokens

Analysis Summary

Ling 3.0 Tiny is inclusionAI's compact free offering, with text input and output, a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling. Those features give it a practical foundation for simple routing, extraction, tagging, templated responses, and other repetitive workflows where operating cost matters more than complex reasoning.

No model-specific benchmark results are supplied, so its coding ability, instruction-following precision, and reliability under multi-step tasks remain unverified. The free pricing makes a sandbox evaluation inexpensive and potentially useful for high-volume internal operations. It should not be selected as a primary client-facing model until testing confirms output quality, tool-call accuracy, and behaviour on edge cases.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Ling 3.0 Tiny is a free, compact model with a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling. No model-specific benchmark results are supplied, so it is best limited to lightweight internal automation pending validation.

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DFO Verdict

Ling 3.0 Tiny is a free, compact model with a 262K context window, tool use, and function calling. No model-specific benchmark results are supplied, so it is best limited to lightweight internal automation pending validation.

#529 of 688 overall

How inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) compares

InclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) ranks #144 of 420 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #112 of 193 for coding, #96 of 175 for agentic tasks. Its 262K-token context window is larger than 74% of the models we list. inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) is currently free to use via OpenRouter.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 23% of models #529
Speed: faster than 84% of models #50
Context: larger than 74% of models #181
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) $0.00 in $0.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) 262K

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence3.5Technical2.9Value0Content3
Performance profile

Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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About inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)

Ling 3.0 Tiny is a mixture-of-experts model from InclusionAI, with 1.3B active parameters out of 7.9B total. It is designed for responsive agents, instruction following, and multi-turn conversations, with switchable..

Frequently asked questions about inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)

How much does inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) cost?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) is currently available for free via OpenRouter.

What is the context window of inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) has a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K).

Is inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) ranks #112 of 193 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) do?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) supports tool use and function calling.

Who created inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free)?

inclusionAI: Ling 3.0 Tiny (free) is developed by inclusionAI and was released on August 6, 2026.

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