Side-by-side comparison of Ling-2.6 1T (inclusionAI · China) and Mistral Small 4 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Ling-2.6 1T is rated conditional; Mistral Small 4 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Ling-2.6 1T is "MIT", Mistral Small 4 is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published model card, Ling-2.6 1T is an MIT-licensed 1-trillion-parameter MoE with a 262k-token context, hybrid MLA + Linear attention and multi-token-prediction support, targeted at production agentic workloads. Permissive weights enable EU self-hosting in principle, though the deployment footprint is non-trivial; vendor jurisdiction (Ant Group, China) and undisclosed training data remain the regulated-buyer blockers. | EU-ready Unified model folding Instruct, reasoning (Magistral) and code (Devstral) into a single 119B MoE under Apache 2.0. 6.5B active params, 256K context, 24 languages, toggleable reasoning effort. Strongest permissive EU option at this scale. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | EU |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 19/100 |
| Speed | — | 147 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.26/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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