What are the hardware requirements for Ring Lite?

Ring Lite requires approximately 24.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Ring Lite and how large is it?

Ring Lite 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 Ring Lite?

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

Ring Lite by inclusionAI — VRAM 24.4GB, 32K context

Name: Ring Lite
Author: inclusionAI

Ring Lite is an open-source language model by inclusionAI. Features: 16.8b LLM, VRAM: 24.4GB, Context: 32K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:2506.14731 Bailing moe Base model:finetune:inclusiona... Base model:inclusionai/ling-li... Conversational Custom code En Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

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

Ring Lite Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Ring Lite
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ring-lite
Base Model(s)	inclusionAI/Ling-lite-base-1.5 inclusionAI/Ling-lite-base-1.5
Model Size	16.8b
Required VRAM	24.4 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	inclusionAI
Model Type	bailing_moe
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Supported Languages	zh en
Model Architecture	BailingMoeForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Vocabulary Size	126464
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Ring Lite

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
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 Lite Base	16K / 33.6 GB	171	29
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/Ring-lite.