Ling 3.0 Flash is the smartest open model in its size class. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Ling 3.0 Flash scores 38 points, a big jump over its predecessor. That puts it on par with Qwen3.6 27B while using far fewer active parameters. It still trails the leader, DeepSeek V4 Flash, which sits at 52 points. According to Artificial Analysis, it's the smartest open model under 124 billion total parameters. No smaller model matches its score.
On the AA Omniscience test, the hallucination rate dropped from 97 to 44 percent compared to the previous version. The model now refuses to answer questions it doesn't have reliable answers for far more often. Ling 3.0 Flash also shows strong gains in agentic tasks over its predecessor, including on the t3-Bench Banking benchmark.
On per-token pricing, Ling 3.0 Flash beats every comparably capable model. It does burn through more tokens on complex tasks than similarly strong alternatives. But even on a per-task basis, it stays cheaper than Qwen3.6 27B. Ant Group's inclusionAI is releasing the model under an MIT license on the inclusionAI API and through DeepInfra. Model weights are available directly on Hugging Face.
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