What are the hardware requirements for Ling Lite Base?

Ling Lite Base requires approximately 33.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ling Lite Base and how large is it?

Ling Lite Base is developed by inclusionAI, a model with 16.8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Ling Lite Base?

Ling Lite Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Ling Lite Base by inclusionAI — VRAM 33.6GB, 16K context

Name: Ling Lite Base
Author: inclusionAI

Ling Lite Base is an open-source language model by inclusionAI. Features: 16.8b LLM, VRAM: 33.6GB, Context: 16K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

Arxiv:2503.05139 Bailing moe Custom code Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-lite-base

Ling Lite Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ling Lite Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-lite-base
Model Size	16.8b
Required VRAM	33.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	inclusionAI
Model Type	bailing_moe
Model Files	9.3 GB: 1-of-4 9.3 GB: 2-of-4 9.3 GB: 3-of-4 5.7 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	BailingMoeForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.36.0
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	126464
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Ling Lite Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Ling Lite 1.5	32K / 33.6 GB	31348	57
Ling Lite 1.5 2507	32K / 33.6 GB	51	77
Ring Lite 2507	32K / 33.6 GB	32	60
Ling Lite 1.5 2506	32K / 33.6 GB	32	53
Ring Lite	32K / 24.4 GB	154	49
Ling Lite	32K / 24.8 GB	624	82
Ling Lite Base 1.5	32K / 25.2 GB	53	33
Ring Lite Distill Preview	16K / 33.6 GB	32	47
Ling Coder Lite	4K / 33.6 GB	93	53
Ling Coder Lite Base	4K / 33.6 GB	44	28

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than inclusionAI/Ling-lite-base.