Model reference · open weights
Ling-3.1-flash is an open-weight language model from inclusionAI. Ling-3.1-flash-base (BF16) weighs 1144 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 8× B200 180 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash model card, 2026-10-15. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | inclusionAI |
|---|---|
| Released | 2026-10-13 |
| Parameters | 572.1B |
| VRAM | 1144 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … 8× H200 141 GB 15 smaller cards | ||||
| 8× B200 180 GB tensor parallel | 29 | 7 | 238K | 176 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1147 GB | 1149 GB |
| 5 | 1149 GB | 1159 GB |
| 8 | 1151 GB | 1168 GB |
| 16 | 1157 GB | 1189 GB |
| 32 | 1168 GB | 1233 GB |
| 64 | 1189 GB | 1320 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling-3.1-flash ↗ | 572.1B | FP8 | 574 GB | 8× A100 80 GB |
| Ling-3.1-flash-base (above) ↗ | 572.1B | BF16 | 1144 GB | 8× B200 180 GB |
From the model card
We're introducing Ling-3.1-flash, an upgraded native hybrid reasoning model designed for complex, real-world tasks. With 560B total parameters, 25B active parameters per token, and a 1M-token context window, Ling-3.1-flash builds upon Ling-3.0-flash with improvements in architecture, performance on real-world capabilities.
With stronger real-world capabilities, Ling-3.1-flash shows improvements across a range of real-world tasks, including general-purpose agents, search, office productivity, and software engineering. It demonstrates strong performance on benchmarks such as GDPVal-AA V2.1, HealthBench Professional, FrontierSWE, and Terminal-Bench 4.0, covering office tasks, healthcare, software engineering, and terminal-based tool use. The model also shows improvements in specialized domains such as finance and materials science.
The model summary information and architecture diagram are as follows:
| Architecture | Hybrid-linear MoE |
|---|---|
| Parameter Scale | Total 560B, Activated 25B |
| Transformer Layers | 63 KDA + 9 Gated MLA (7:1) |
| Number of Dense Layers | 4 |
| Number of Routed Experts | 512 |
| Number of Shared Experts | 1 |
| Number of Activated Experts | 8 |
| Attention Heads | 64 |
| Hidden Size | 4096 |
| Expert Intermediate Size | 1280 |
| Dense Intermediate Size | 10240 |
| Vocabulary Size | 157184 |
We have conducted a comprehensive evaluation of Ling-3.1-flash across multiple authoritative benchmarks. Ling-3.1-flash performs strongly on representative coding/agentic benchmarks including Terminal-Bench 4.0, SWE-bench Pro, FrontierSWE, GDPVal-AA V2.1, Automationbench, MCP-Atlas, SkillsBench, etc. In practice, Ling-3.1-flash delivers a strong user experience across frameworks including Claude Code,** Kilo Code**,** Qwen Code**,** Hermes Agent**,** and OpenClaw**, etc. Beyond agentic tasks, Ling-3.1-flash performs strongly on real-world tasks across STEM, healthcare, and finance.
We also introduce LingCode, a harness built on the open-source coding agent Pi, and enhanced to support complex, long-horizon coding tasks that run for hours, involve hundreds of rounds of tool calls, and require repeated context compaction. LingCode delivers significant performance gains on some coding agent tasks, and we are considering open-sourcing it in the future.
The day-0 SGLang image includes Ling-3.1-flash support, MTP (NEXTN) speculative decoding, and the Hopper decode optimizations:
docker pull lmsysorg/sglang:dev-ling-3.1-flash
Server (8x H200, TP8 + EP8):
docker run --gpus all --network host --ipc=host --rm \
lmsysorg/sglang:dev-ling-3.1-flash \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path inclusionAI/Ling-3.1-flash \
--tp 8 --ep 8 \
--speculative-algorithm NEXTN \
--host 0.0.0.0 --port 30000
On 4x GB300, use --tp 4 --ep 4 instead. Hopper decode optimizations (optional, ~10% faster batch-1 decode) can be enabled with SGLANG_ENABLE_FP8_BLOCK_GEMV=1 and SGLANG_ENABLE_FUSED_KDA_OUTPUT_QUANT=1.
Client
curl -s http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "Ling-3.1-flash",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}],
"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": true},
"stream": true,
"temperature": 1.0,
"top_k": 20,
"top_p": 0.95}'
Verified recipes for H200, GB300, H800, H100, and B200, plus HiCache (Mooncake L3), reasoning on/off, tool calling, and measured accuracy/speed numbers, are in the SGLang Ling-3.1-flash cookbook.
pip install uv
uv venv ~/my_ling_env
source ~/my_ling_env/bin/activate
git clone -b vllm https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git
cd vllm
VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED=1 uv pip install --editable . --torch-backend=auto
Server
vllm serve "$MODEL_PATH" \
--port "$PORT" \
--trust-remote-code \
--served-model-name auto \
--tensor-parallel-size 8 \
--gpu-memory-utilization 0.85 \
--enable-prefix-caching \
--enable-expert-parallel \
--mamba-cache-mode align \
--enable-auto-tool-choice \
--tool-call-parser ling3 \
--reasoning-parser ling3 \
--speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":3}'
Client It is recommended to use the sampling params (temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20) and turn on enable_thinkingfor better performance.
curl -s http://${MASTER_IP}:${PORT}/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "auto",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}],
"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": true},
"stream": true,
"temperature": 1.0,
"top_k": 20,
"top_p": 0.95}'
The public training-content summary identifying Ling-3.1-flash is available below. Please refer to the document for its covered model versions, training-content scope, summary version, and update date.
This summary concerns training-content disclosure; it does not replace the model’s technical documentation, usage terms, or license.
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.