Ant Group
Ant Group ranks #21 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 9 ranked models. Its best model is Ling 3.0 Flash VL at 55.5 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in long context. Prices run from $0.111 to $0.850 per million tokens blended; Ling 3.0 Flash VL is the cheapest ranked option. The fastest is Ling 3.0 Flash at 320 tokens per second. 10 of its 12 models ship open weights. It has shipped 11 dated releases, roughly one every 19 days; the last was 1 Oct 2026, so the next would be due between 12 Oct 2026 and 27 Oct 2026 on that pattern.
- Provider rank
- #21
- by best model
- Best index
- 55.5
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
- Ranked models
- 9
- 10 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $0.111/M
- Ling 3.0 Flash VL
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
- Ant Group9
Next release
Over the last two years Ant Group shipped 11 distinct models, one every 19 days on median. The latest arrived on 1 Oct 2026.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 12 Oct 2026 and 27 Oct 2026.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Fastest ranked model: Ling 3.0 Flash at 320 tok/s.
Models
Every Ant Group model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ling 3.0 Flash VLopen ↗ | 55.5±5 | $0.111 | 37 | 1.37 s | 262k | 2026-09-10 | 2026-09-10 |
| 2 | Ling 3.0 Flash Finopen | 54.3±7 | $0.111 | – | – | 262k | 2026-09-11 | 2026-09-11 |
| 3 | Ling 3.0 Flashopen ↗ | 52.8±4 | $0.115 | 320 | 9.07 s | 262k | 2026-08-04 | 2026-10-13 |
| 4 | Ring-2.6-1Topen | 49.3±4 | $0.850 | 118 | 21 s | 262k | 2026-05-14 | 2026-05-14 |
| 5 | Ling 3.0 Tinyopen | 48.7±5 | – | 57 | 38 s | 262k | 2026-08-06 | 2026-08-06 |
| 6 | Ring 1t(Oct 2025)open | 46.1±6 | – | – | – | 128k | 2025-10-13 | 2025-10-13 · stale |
| 7 | Ring Flash 2.0open | 44.6±4 | – | – | – | 128k | 2025-09-19 | 2026-10-22 |
| 8 | Ling Flash 2.0open | 44.4±5 | $0.248 | 4 | 2.49 s | 131k | 2025-09-17 | 2026-10-22 |
| 9 | Ling 1topen | 43.7±4 | – | – | – | 128k | 2025-10-08 | 2025-10-08 · stale |
| 10 | Ling 3.1 Flashopen | – | $0.450 | 220 | 11 s | 262k | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-22 |
| 11 | Ling 3.0 Flash Af Rc3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-13 |
| 12 | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante | – | $0.111 | – | – | 262k | 2026-09-04 | – |
Latest news
- Jack Ma-Backed Ant’s Profit Flattened After AI, Expansion CostsBloomberg.com · 20 Aug 2026
- Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI paymentsCNBC · 9 Sept 2026
- Fintech giant Ant Group restructures Alipay around AI agents to drive growthSouth China Morning Post · 22 Sept 2026
- Ant Group Unit Partners Damon Technology to Bring AI Into WarehousesAsia Business Outlook · 21 Oct 2026
- Tencent and Ant Group Bet on the Same Horse as Shanghai AI Startup Today AI's Cumulative Funding Tops $200 MillionBigGo Finance · 22 Oct 2026
- Ant Group open-sources 560-billion-parameter Ling-3.1-flash AI modelTechNode · 16 Oct 2026
- Ant Group 2025 Sustainability Report Highlights Record AI R&D InvestmentYahoo Finance · 17 Jun 2026
- Ant Group Expands Open AI Models With Ling-2.5-1T and Ring-2.5-1TFinTech Weekly · 16 Feb 2026