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Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway

Alibaba's Ling 3.0 Tiny lands on Vercel's AI Gateway—free through August 13, built for agentic workloads.

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Why it matters

A capable small open-weight model (1.3B active params, 256K context, native function calling) joins a unified API platform, lowering the bar for practitioners to test agent-oriented inference without vendor lock-in or platform markup.

The key facts

12 to know
  1. Ling 3.0 Tiny: 7.9B total parameters, ~1.3B active per token (MoE)

  2. 256K context window, up to 32K output tokens

  3. Native function calling and prompt caching

  4. Free access on Vercel AI Gateway through August 13, 2026

  5. Model designed for responsive agents, instruction following, multi-turn conversation

  6. AI Gateway: no platform inference fee, no markup on provider pricing, includes cost tracking, routing, failover, retries

  7. After August 13, model available as inclusionai/ling-3-0-tiny (paid tier)

  8. Ling 3.0 Tiny: 7.9B parameters, 1.3B active per token (MoE)

  9. Built for responsive agents, instruction following, multi-turn conversation

  10. AI Gateway: unified API with usage tracking, cost management, retries, failover, routing rules

  11. Zero platform fee on inference, including BYOK requests

  12. Model provider: ANT Group

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Publisher excerpt: from ANT Group is now on AI Gateway, free to use till August 13. Ling 3.0 Tiny takes the free slot from .Ling 3.0 TinyLing 3.0 Flash Ling 3.0 Tiny is a MOE model with 7.9B total parameters and about 1.3B active per token, a 256K token context window, and up to 32K output tokens. The model is built…
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