Model index · Text · text generation · standard · open weights · inclusionAI · released 2026-04-23

Ling-2.6-1T pricing

Served by 2 providers from $0.2125 to $0.8500 per 1M tokens on the standard tier — a 4.0× gap for identical weights.

Our two sources disagree on this price

OpenRouter quotes $0.2125 per 1M while Novita, the cheapest host we hold for it, publishes $0.8500 — 4.0x apart. Both come from the seller's own API, so one is wrong and we cannot tell which. Held out of price rankings until they agree.

Every row below carries the source it came from, so you can see both figures and check them. We would rather show you the disagreement than pick a side and be confidently wrong.

Ling-2.6-1T is an instant (instruct) model from inclusionAI and the company’s trillion-parameter flagship, designed for real-world agents that require fast execution and high efficiency at scale. It uses a “fast...

inclusionAI · 1025.66B parameters · mit · first published 2026-04-23 · Text model · text generation · 262k context · description as published by the source, not written by us

Open weights: inclusionAI/Ling-2.6-1T · 1025.66B parameters counted from the weight files · licence mit · 0.0M downloads in the last 30 days . Parameter count and licence come from the public weights registry, not from a seller — and the download figure exists only for models published this way, so it is not a market-wide popularity measure.

$0.2125

Cheapest standard /1M — OpenRouter (default route)

262k

Native context window

2

Providers serving it

Quality not measured yet

Quality not measured yet

We measure models on request rather than pre-scoring the whole catalog, so this one has no score yet. Absence of a score is not a low score.

At 1M requests/month (1500 in / 500 out tokens), moving from Novita to OpenRouter (default route) saves about $1,275/month.

Illustrative traffic shape, stated so you can check it against your own. Same weights both sides — but confirm quantisation and context below before switching.

Every provider and service tier

Standard on-demand rows first, cheapest of each group first. Tiers are not interchangeable — see the note below the table.

Provider In /1M Out /1M Blended /1M Tier Region Source
OpenRouter (default route) * cheapest standard
resells other hosts
$0.0750 $0.6250 $0.2125 standard provider_api
Novita $0.3000 $2.50 $0.8500 standard provider_api

* OpenRouter chooses a host for each request, and the figure above is what its default choice costs — not a fixed rate for this model. Selecting a specific host through the same account costs whatever that host charges, which is why this row can sit above or below the hosts listed beside it. Token rates are passed through from the underlying provider with no markup, so the per-1M price above is what that host charges directly — OpenRouter's own charge sits on funding instead: 5.5% (min $0.80) by Stripe or 5% by Coinbase to buy credits, 5% of the equivalent spend if you bring your own provider key. So budget about 5% above the rate shown unless you already hold credit. Fee schedule.

Compare Ling-2.6-1T with alternatives

One model per vendor, ordered by how prominent the vendor is and how many independent providers serve the model — hosts only carry what customers ask for, so that is a real demand signal. This is not traffic or popularity data, which we do not have. Every alternative below does the same job — text generation — because a price comparison between a generator and, say, an upscaler is arithmetic rather than advice. Prices on both sides are standard on-demand rates, so the comparison is like for like — a discounted batch or flex rate is never shown against another model’s standard rate.

AlternativeVendor $/1M vs Ling-2.6-1T QualityKindContextHosts
Llama 4 Scout Meta $0.1500
DeepInfra
29% cheaper 40/100 standard 1.31M 4
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Alibaba $0.2015
Alibaba
5% cheaper 40/100 standard
open weights
262k 3
Nova Lite 1.0 Amazon $0.1050
OpenRouter (default route)
51% cheaper 40/100 standard 300k 2
Hermes 3 405B Instruct Nous $1.00
DeepInfra
371% dearer 60/100 standard
open weights
131k 3
WizardLM-2 8x22B Microsoft $0.4800
DeepInfra
126% dearer 100/100 standard 66k 3
Command R (08-2024) Cohere $0.2625
Cohere
24% dearer not measured standard 128k 1
Gemma 3 27B Google $0.1000
DeepInfra
53% cheaper not measured standard
open weights
262k 9
GPT-4.1 Nano OpenAI $0.1750
OpenAI
18% cheaper not measured standard 1.05M 3

Prices are the cheapest host for each model, blended at a 3:1 input:output ratio. "Quality" is our own probe suite where we have run it — see what it measures. A cheaper alternative is only a real saving if it also passes on the capability your workload needs.

5 of these alternatives cost less than Ling-2.6-1T — the cheapest being Gemma 3 27B at $0.1000 per 1M tokens blended (53% cheaper).

Cheaper is not automatically better: check the quality column, and confirm the context window and capabilities your workload depends on before switching.

Before you switch

Identical weights do not guarantee identical output. Check that the cheaper host serves the model at full precision rather than a quantised copy, that its context window matches what you need, and that its rate limits carry your peak traffic. A cheaper host that cannot take your throughput is not cheaper — it is an outage.

Move to OpenRouter (default route) without a rewrite

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Frequently asked

How much does Ling-2.6-1T cost?

The cheapest standard-tier provider is OpenRouter (default route) at $0.2125 per 1M tokens blended (3:1 input:output). The dearest is Novita at $0.8500 — a 4.0× difference for the same weights. Prices change often; verify with the provider before budgeting.

Which provider is best for Ling-2.6-1T?

Cheapest is not automatically best. Compare quantisation (a lossy copy of the weights changes output), the context window each host actually serves, and rate limits. Where a provider serves less context than the model's native window we flag it in the table above.

Can I switch providers for Ling-2.6-1T without changing code?

Yes, if you route through an abstraction. VernaOne exposes one API across every provider listed here, so switching host is a config change and you keep automatic fallback if the new one degrades.

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