Ling 2.6

Ling 2.6

Ant Group
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About

Claude Fable 5.1 is Anthropic’s advanced AI model for coding, knowledge work, research, and long-running agentic tasks. It is designed to improve on Claude Fable 5 with stronger performance across software engineering, scientific research, multidisciplinary reasoning, computer use, business workflows, and complex problem solving. The model can handle extended multi-step work, verify its own results, diagnose difficult software issues, and operate effectively across tool-heavy workflows. Anthropic also reduced cache-read pricing for Fable 5.1, lowering typical usage costs compared with Fable 5 and creating larger savings for highly agentic workloads. Fable 5.1 includes updated safeguards intended to reduce false positives while allowing more legitimate cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability discovery for defensive purposes. The model is available through Claude products, the Claude API, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

About

Ling 2.6 is a general-purpose large language model series independently developed and open-sourced by Ant Group, built on a Mixture of Experts architecture and designed for inference efficiency, long context modeling, training technology, and AI Agent collaborative reasoning. Ling’s MoE architecture routes each token to activate only the most relevant expert subnetworks, compressing actual computation to a minimal fraction while maintaining large-scale model capacity. The Ling 2.6 series further advances long-sequence modeling, with Ling-2.6-1T supporting up to a 1M native context window and the official API exposing a 256K context window, while Ling-2.6-flash provides a native 256K context window capable of processing approximately 200,000 characters of long-form input. The models are designed for reliable long-range information retrieval, with no noticeable degradation whether information appears at the beginning, middle, or end of the context.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Software developers, researchers, enterprises, analysts, knowledge workers, and AI application teams that need advanced coding, reasoning, research, and long-running agentic capabilities

Audience

AI developers and enterprise teams that need open long-context models for agent workflows, coding, knowledge management, and high-throughput language applications

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$10 per 1M tokens (input)
$10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$0.0028 per 1M tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • This feels like the model you reach for when the work is genuinely difficult. Not every task needs Fable, but for complex coding, long-horizon agents, deep research, and big messy knowledge-work projects, Fable 5.1 looks built for the hard stuff. The 1M-token context window is a huge advantage. For developers and AI power users, that means you can work across large repos, long docs, research sets, transcripts, spreadsheets, and project history without constantly chopping everything into pieces. I also like that Anthropic specifically calls out document, spreadsheet, and slide work. That makes it feel useful beyond coding alone — more like a high-end model for serious professional workflows.

Cons

  • The downside is price and complexity. Anthropic says most workloads should start with Claude Opus 5, and Fable 5.1 is better reserved for demanding reasoning or cases where Opus 5 still falls short.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Anthropic
Founded: 2021
United States
claude.ai

Company Information

Ant Group
Founded: 2014
China
developer.ant-ling.com/en/docs/models/ling/

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Integrations

Claude Code
Hermes Agent
OpenClaw
.NET
App0
Brokk
C++
Cheaper Inference
Claude
Elixir
Emergent
Flowise
Google Antigravity
Kilo Code
Lovable
Lua
Node.js
React
Scalestack
Twigg
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