// Ant Ling / Ring / Ming · Image generation
Ming-Image-0.1-Design: VRAM & local deployment
6.16B (MoE) parameters. About 4.6 GB at 4-bit and 14.0 GB at BF16.
released 2026-09-17licence: Commercial OKmemory figures are estimates
01Specs
| Publisher | Ant Group inclusionAI · inclusionAI |
|---|---|
| Family / series | Ant Ling / Ring / Ming · Ming-Image-0.1-Design |
| Type | Image generation (text-to-image) |
| Parameters | 6.16B (MoE) Source: counted from official safetensors weights |
| Released weights | BF16 · 52.9 GBdownload |
| Licence | MIT · Commercial OKPermissive licence (Apache-2.0 / MIT / CC-BY / OpenMDW): commercial use allowed. |
| Released | 2026-09-17 (Hugging Face repo created) |
02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)
Image models: memory depends on resolution, batch and which text encoders are kept on the GPU; Diffusers / ComfyUI can offload parts to CPU. The weight size below is the main transformer only.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + overhead | Smallest GPU | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 (original) | 12.3 GB | 14.0 GB | 16GB GPU | Mac 24GB |
| FP8 / INT8 / Q8_0 | 6.5 GB | 7.7 GB | 12GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| 4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4) | 3.7 GB | 4.6 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →
03How to run it
Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.
- vLLM — mentioned in the official model card
04Official repositories & quantised builds
1 official repo(s) from inclusionAI.
05Other Ant Ling / Ring / Ming models
All 29 →| Model | Params | 4-bit total | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ling-3.0-tiny-UBTree | 183M | 1.0 GB | 2026-10-21 |
| Ling-3.0-flash-UBTree | 482M | 1.5 GB | 2026-10-14 |
| Ming-3.0-asr-tiny | 8.87B | 6.4 GB | 2026-10-14 |
| Ling-3.1-flash | 560B / 25B | 375 GB | 2026-10-13 |
| Ming-3.0-tts-0.5B | 1.48B | 1.5 GB | 2026-09-22 |
| Ming-3.0-tts-tiny | 8.98B / 1.3B | 6.5 GB | 2026-09-22 |
| Ling-3.0-flash-VL | 124B / 5.5B | 83.6 GB | 2026-09-04 |
| Ming-3.0-audio-flash | 126B / 6.5B | 84.5 GB | 2026-09-03 |
06Sources
Data checked 2026-10-14. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.