Side-by-side comparison of Ling-2.6 Flash (inclusionAI · China) and Step-3.7-Flash (StepFun) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Ling-2.6 Flash is rated conditional; Step-3.7-Flash is conditional. They part ways on licence: Ling-2.6 Flash is "MIT", Step-3.7-Flash is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published model card, Ling-2.6 Flash is an MIT-licensed 104B / 7.4B-active MoE built on a hybrid Lightning-Linear + MLA attention design, positioned for agentic and tool-use workflows. Permissive weights are deployable in EU infrastructure; the headline risks for regulated buyers are vendor jurisdiction (Ant Group's inclusionAI lab, headquartered in China) and the absence of any training-data disclosure in the model card. | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the Step-3.7-Flash weights ship without commercial restriction — a 198B / 11B-active vision-language MoE with a 256k-token context aimed at tool-heavy and agentic workflows. The remaining EU-readiness gaps are the entirely undisclosed training corpus and StepFun's Shanghai-based vendor jurisdiction; deploy on self-managed EU infrastructure and document the Art. 50 transparency story for any synthetic or biometric output. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-05-30 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | — |
| Speed | 211 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.15/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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