Audience
Users and AI product teams that need a fast, efficient long-context model for customer service, translation, content workflows, and recommendation intelligence
About Ling 2.6 Flash
Ling 2.6 Flash is the latest cost-effective model in the Ling series, built on a Mixture of Experts architecture with 104B total parameters and 7.4B activated parameters. It is designed to achieve an optimal balance between inference performance and compute cost, making it suitable for general-purpose scenarios where strong reasoning capability, high throughput, and efficient deployment matter. Ling’s MoE architecture routes each token to activate only the most relevant expert subnetworks, compressing actual computation to a minimal fraction while maintaining large-scale model capacity. Ling 2.6 Flash provides a native 256K context window and can process approximately 200,000 characters of long-form input, with reliable long-range information retrieval whether key information appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the context. Its aggregate benchmark performance is comparable to or exceeds 40B-class Dense models.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$0.00037 per 1M tokens
Company Information
Ant Group
Founded: 2014
China
developer.ant-ling.com/en/docs/models/ling/
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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Cloud
Training
Documentation
Support
Online
Ling 2.6 Flash Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Ling 2.6 Flash work with?
Ling 2.6 Flash works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Ling 2.6 Flash support in their product?
Ling 2.6 Flash supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Ling 2.6 Flash offer?
Ling 2.6 Flash offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does Ling 2.6 Flash integrate with?
Ling 2.6 Flash integrates with: Claude Code, Hermes Agent, Kilo Code, OpenClaw, OpenRouter, and ZenMux.
Q: Does Ling 2.6 Flash have an API?
Yes, Ling 2.6 Flash has an API.
Q: What type of training does Ling 2.6 Flash provide?
Ling 2.6 Flash provides training in the form of documentation.
Q: How much does Ling 2.6 Flash cost?
Pricing for Ling 2.6 Flash starts at $0.00037 per 1M tokens.
