# Apertus v1.5 8B vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B (slim)

> Apertus v1.5 8B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Apertus v1.5 8B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Apertus v1.5 8B: C 61, rank #40 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.min.md
- MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B: C 61, rank #76 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm-v-4-7-1b.min.md
- Apertus v1.5 8B, good for Agents that want a fully open, multilingual 8B with image and audio input on one 24 GB GPU, and can run a publisher fork of vLLM. Ahead on Risk, 75 against 55; Agent interface, 85 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 84 against 48.
- MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B, good for Agents that need a cheap local model to read screenshots, photos and short video on a phone, a laptop or beside a bigger model Ahead on Reach, 95 against 40.

| Category | Apertus v1.5 8B | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 40 | 95 |
| Risk (20%) | 75 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 84 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Apertus v1.5 8B | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL and ETH Zurich) | OpenBMB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0, with the Apertus Acceptable Use Policy (v1.5, 14 July 2026) accepted at the download gate | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-30 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Reach, MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +55: Apertus v1.5 8B 40 (Memory 25 of 30, the BF16 files are 18.4 GB, or 22.1 GB with a fifth added, which fits 24 GB.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 95 (Memory 30, OpenBMB's own IQ4_XS GGUF is 0.64 GB, 1.54 GB with the 0.90 GB vision projector, and 1.54 GB × 1.2 = 1.9 GB, which fits 16 GB with room to spare.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Apertus v1.5 8B +36: Apertus v1.5 8B 84 (Model card 14 of 20, languages and a knowledge cut-off are missing.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 48 (Model card 8, Intended use (image, multi-image and video understanding on device), architecture (early visual-token compression inside the vision encoder) and p…)
- Risk, Apertus v1.5 8B +20: Apertus v1.5 8B 75 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no code in the repository.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors in the main repository and the AWQ, GPTQ and int4 builds, GGUF in the GGUF build, with no .bin, .pt, .pth or .py files in the main r…)
- Agent interface, Apertus v1.5 8B +15: Apertus v1.5 8B 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 70 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, 7,249 characters.)