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      "name": "Apertus v1.5 8B",
      "vendor": "Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL and ETH Zurich)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.swiss-ai.org",
      "kind": "weights",
      "category": "open-weights",
      "summary": "Apertus v1.5 8B is the Swiss AI Initiative's open-data, open-weight multilingual model of 8.9B parameters that takes text, images and audio and answers in text, with optional thinking and a 262,144-token context. The download is gated behind a click-through.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.json",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B",
      "license": "Apache-2.0, with the Apertus Acceptable Use Policy (v1.5, 14 July 2026) accepted at the download gate",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B"
        }
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      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The repository is gated (gated: auto). Downloading needs a Hugging Face account, accepting Apache 2.0, the Apertus Acceptable Use Policy and a privacy policy, and sharing your contact details, company and institutional email with the authors; Hugging Face approves the request automatically. The card, the file list, the chat template and the gate's text are public. We didn't accept the terms (checked 2026-10-21).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0 plus the Acceptable Use Policy, which adds an indemnity for ETH Zurich and EPFL and requires anyone who redistributes the model to pass the policy on with an express act of assent. Running it costs the hardware, 18.4 GB of files in BF16 with the image and audio tokenizers in F32 (checked 2026-10-21).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
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        "asOf": "2026-10-21"
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      "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B",
      "capabilities": [
        "model.open-weights"
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      "tags": [
        "open-weights",
        "model",
        "dense",
        "multimodal",
        "multilingual",
        "open-data",
        "audio-input",
        "reasoning",
        "tool-calling",
        "apache-2.0",
        "safetensors",
        "gated",
        "self-hosted"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-14",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 61,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 0,
        "ranked": false,
        "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools",
        "rankOf": 1197,
        "categoryRank": 28,
        "methodology": "0.6",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "interface": 85,
          "reach": 40,
          "risk": 75,
          "upkeep": 84
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
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          "confidence": "low",
          "date": "2026-10-21"
        },
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        "verdict": "A fully open 8B cousin, training data included, for multilingual chat and tool calls with images and audio in. It needs about 22 GB in BF16 and Swiss AI's own vLLM or Transformers fork, since no released runtime supports it. The main risks are a gated download with a policy to pass on and tools that fail with thinking on.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Open training data, with every dataset listed by version and licence and the post-training data published",
          "Safety benchmarks reported for the released 8B, plus outside evaluators given early access",
          "Tool format documented by the publisher, with a parser named and several calls a turn",
          "Thinking that turns on per request, and 262,144 tokens of context",
          "Safetensors only, with a checksum on every file",
          "Swiss AI answered every question in the repository's discussions"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No released runtime supports it, only Swiss AI's forks of vLLM and Transformers",
          "No quantised build from Swiss AI, and the report warns 4-bit NVFP4 in attention gives NaN logits",
          "Gated download that collects contact details, under a use policy you must pass on when you redistribute",
          "Tool calling and thinking don't combine, and parallel calls are weaker on the 8B",
          "No structured output documentation and no knowledge cut-off"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Accept the terms on the card and set HF_TOKEN before downloading",
          "Use Swiss AI's Docker image ghcr.io/swiss-ai/vllm_apertus_1.5_release, since stock vLLM and Transformers don't load Apertus1p5ForConditionalGeneration yet",
          "Serve with `--chat-template-content-format string --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser apertus` for tools, and leave thinking off when you need tools",
          "For thinking, set `--reasoning-parser apertus` and `--default-chat-template-kwargs.enable_thinking true`, and budget max tokens generously",
          "Audio is resampled to 24 kHz and costs 40 tokens a second, and video must be passed as frames",
          "Don't cast the loaded model with .half(), the image and audio tokenizers must stay in F32",
          "If you redistribute the weights, the policy says you must pass it on and get the recipient's express assent"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.8,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "low",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.6",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 61
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "interface": 85,
          "reach": 40,
          "risk": 75,
          "upkeep": 84
        },
        "provenanceScore": 49,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
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            "reach": "2026-10-21",
            "risk": "2026-10-21",
            "upkeep": "2026-10-21"
          },
          "last": "2026-10-21",
          "oldest": "2026-10-21",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "# accept the terms on the Hugging Face card first, then set HF_TOKEN\ndocker pull ghcr.io/swiss-ai/vllm_apertus_1.5_release:latest-amd64\nvllm serve swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B --chat-template-content-format string \\\n  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.6 --max-model-len 262144 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser apertus",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -d '{\"model\": \"swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Name the four official languages of Switzerland.\"}]}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/apertus-v1-5-8b"
      },
      "weights": {
        "trainedBy": "Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL and ETH Zurich)",
        "builtOn": "Apertus 1.0 8B (continued pretraining of Swiss AI's own model, per the card)",
        "params": "8.9B",
        "context": 262144,
        "goodFor": "Fully open multilingual model for text, images and audio in with text out, instruction following, tool calls and optional thinking, for teams that want open data and a European publisher.",
        "runtimes": [],
        "builds": [
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-8B",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B",
            "who": "publisher",
            "precision": "bf16",
            "sizeGB": 18.4,
            "memoryGB": 24,
            "format": "safetensors",
            "runsOn": [
              "vLLM (Swiss AI fork)",
              "Transformers (Swiss AI fork)"
            ],
            "note": "Gated (click-through with contact details). Size is the Hub's file list summed, 17.2 GB of BF16 language-model shards plus 1.2 GB of F32 vision and audio tokenizers. No quantised build from Swiss AI"
          }
        ],
        "run": "docker pull ghcr.io/swiss-ai/vllm_apertus_1.5_release:latest-amd64 \u0026\u0026 vllm serve swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B --chat-template-content-format string --gpu-memory-utilization 0.6 --max-model-len 262144 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser apertus",
        "runBuild": "Apertus-v1.5-8B",
        "checked": "2026-10-21",
        "minMemoryGB": 24
      },
      "family": {
        "lab": "Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS)",
        "family": "Apertus (v1 2509, v1.1, v1.5)",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#swiss-ai",
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          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-70B-base",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-base",
            "params": "70B (Hub safetensors count 71.94B)"
          },
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            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-8B-SFT",
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          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-8B-RL",
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          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-8B-DPO",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-8B-DPO",
            "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.90B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-70B-SFT",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-SFT",
            "params": "70B (Hub safetensors count 72.01B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-70B-RL",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B-RL",
            "params": "70B (Hub safetensors count 72.01B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.5-70B",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.5-70B",
            "params": "70B (Hub safetensors count 72.01B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.1-1.5B-Instruct",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.1-1.5B-Instruct",
            "params": "1.5B (Hub safetensors count 1.51B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.1-4B-Instruct",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.1-4B-Instruct",
            "params": "4B (Hub safetensors count 3.83B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.1-0.5B-Instruct",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.1-0.5B-Instruct",
            "params": "0.5B (Hub safetensors count 573M)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.1-4B",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.1-4B",
            "params": "4B (Hub safetensors count 3.83B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.1-0.5B",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.1-0.5B",
            "params": "0.5B (Hub safetensors count 438M)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-v1.1-1.5B",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-v1.1-1.5B",
            "params": "1.5B (Hub safetensors count 1.51B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-8B-2509",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-2509",
            "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.05B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-70B-2509",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-2509",
            "params": "70B (Hub safetensors count 70.60B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509",
            "params": "70B (Hub safetensors count 70.60B)"
          },
          {
            "name": "Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509",
            "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.05B)"
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        ]
      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "ETH Zurich and EPFL (the Swiss National AI Institute, named in the Acceptable Use Policy)",
        "domain": "swiss-ai.org",
        "domainRegistered": "2023-08-10",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-legal/blob/main/apertus_1.5/USAGE_POLICY.pdf",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-21",
        "notes": [
          "The Acceptable Use Policy names the Swiss National AI Institute, a partnership of ETH Zurich and EPFL. RDAP gives swiss-ai.org a registration date of 10 August 2023 and apertus-ai.org 5 August 2025.",
          "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the licence and the Acceptable Use Policy stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored. A separate privacy policy covers the contact details the gate collects.",
          "The Hugging Face commit history is behind the gate. The repository was last modified on 14 October 2026 per the Hub.",
          "www.swiss-ai.org answers 400 for /.well-known/security.txt and apertus-ai.org didn't answer through our proxy on 21 October 2026. ETH Zurich's security.txt and disclosure policy cover ETH's IT infrastructure."
        ],
        "score": 49
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.json"
    },
    "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Apertus v1.5 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Apertus v1.5 8B leads on documentation and upkeep.",
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      "slug": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b",
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      "vendor": "NVIDIA",
      "vendorUrl": "https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron",
      "kind": "weights",
      "category": "open-weights",
      "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA's open-weight hybrid Mamba-2 and mixture-of-experts reasoning model for agents, 30B parameters with 3B active and up to 1M tokens of context, published on Hugging Face in BF16 and NVFP4 under OpenMDW-1.1.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16",
      "license": "OpenMDW-1.1",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16"
        },
        {
          "registry": "huggingface",
          "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4"
        },
        {
          "registry": "ollama",
          "name": "nemotron-3.5-lightning"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The BF16 and NVFP4 repositories are not gated (checked 2026-10-21).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under OpenMDW-1.1. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 65.9 GB for the BF16 repository (one H100 80GB at 256K tokens per the card), 21.6 GB for NVIDIA's NVFP4 build or 19 GB for Ollama's smallest 4-bit build (checked 2026-10-21).",
      "priceSummary": "Free",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
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        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
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        "asOf": "2026-10-21"
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      "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16",
      "capabilities": [
        "model.open-weights"
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      "tags": [
        "open-weights",
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        "mamba",
        "hybrid",
        "reasoning",
        "tool-calling",
        "long-context",
        "safetensors",
        "nvfp4",
        "self-hosted",
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      "lastRelease": "2026-08-11",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 64.2,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 0,
        "ranked": false,
        "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools",
        "rankOf": 1197,
        "categoryRank": 17,
        "methodology": "0.6",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "capability": 34,
          "interface": 90,
          "reach": 85,
          "risk": 75,
          "upkeep": 70
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-21"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.",
        "bestFor": "Agents on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a fast tool-calling reasoning model with long context and a permissive licence",
        "strengths": [
          "Released support in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Transformers, Ollama and LM Studio",
          "4-bit builds of 19 GB from ggml-org and Ollama, and NVIDIA's own NVFP4 at 21.6 GB",
          "Safetensors only, with no repository code run to load it or parse its output",
          "Tool calls documented with a named parser, several per turn, and thinking off per request",
          "Training data listed with token counts and cut-offs, much of it published",
          "OpenMDW-1.1 with no gate, no threshold and no use policy, and NVIDIA's own API serves it"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No safety evaluation results published",
          "One NVIDIA reply across 12 questions on its two repositories",
          "Only one quantised build from NVIDIA, and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs",
          "Structured output claimed but not documented, and no reasoning budget",
          "The card's llama.cpp recipe names a Q4_K_M file that ggml-org's repository doesn't hold"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Quickest start is `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`, about 19 to 25 GB of files depending on the platform",
          "On the reference machine use `llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja`, since the card's Q4_K_M tag doesn't exist there and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs",
          "With vLLM serve it with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder` (SGLang uses `--reasoning-parser nemotron_3`)",
          "Use `temperature=1.0` and `top_p=0.95`, as the card says",
          "Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks",
          "For coding agents pass `force_nonempty_content: true` in `chat_template_kwargs`, which vLLM's nemotron_v3 parser reads so a cut-off reasoning trace still returns content",
          "Go past 262,144 tokens only with the card's flags (`VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1`, `--max-model-len 1048576`) and enough memory"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3,
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          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
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            "methodology": "0.6",
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 64.2
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "capability": 34,
          "interface": 90,
          "reach": 85,
          "risk": 75,
          "upkeep": 70
        },
        "provenanceScore": 73,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "capability": "2026-10-21",
            "interface": "2026-10-21",
            "reach": "2026-10-21",
            "risk": "2026-10-21",
            "upkeep": "2026-10-21"
          },
          "last": "2026-10-21",
          "oldest": "2026-10-21",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning\n# or, with llama.cpp and the GGUF the card links:\nllama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 -c 131072\n# or, with vLLM on NVIDIA GPUs (the card's command, abridged):\nvllm serve nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \\\n  --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\n    \"model\": \"nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4\",\n    \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is the capital of Japan?\"}],\n    \"temperature\": 1.0, \"top_p\": 0.95,\n    \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": false}\n  }'"
      },
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b"
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      "sameCompany": [
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        "nemo-guardrails",
        "nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b",
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        "nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b",
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          "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
          "The changelog is the repository's commit history. Since release on 11 August 2026 only the cards have changed, most commits reading Update README.md.",
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        "name": "Capability",
        "pending": true,
        "weight": 35
      },
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        "apertus-v1-5-8b": 40,
        "by": 45,
        "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b",
        "key": "reach",
        "name": "Reach",
        "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 85,
        "weight": 25
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      {
        "apertus-v1-5-8b": 75,
        "by": 0,
        "edge": "",
        "key": "risk",
        "name": "Risk",
        "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 75,
        "weight": 20
      },
      {
        "apertus-v1-5-8b": 85,
        "by": 5,
        "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b",
        "key": "interface",
        "name": "Agent interface",
        "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 90,
        "weight": 10
      },
      {
        "apertus-v1-5-8b": 84,
        "by": 14,
        "edge": "apertus-v1-5-8b",
        "key": "upkeep",
        "name": "Documentation and upkeep",
        "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 70,
        "weight": 10
      }
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    "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Apertus v1.5 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Apertus v1.5 8B leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.",
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      "apertus-v1-5-8b": "A fully open 8B cousin, training data included, for multilingual chat and tool calls with images and audio in. It needs about 22 GB in BF16 and Swiss AI's own vLLM or Transformers fork, since no released runtime supports it. The main risks are a gated download with a policy to pass on and tools that fail with thinking on.",
      "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": "A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories."
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  "markdown": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Apertus v1.5 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Apertus v1.5 8B leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Apertus v1.5 8B: grade C, 61/100, rank #35 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.json\n- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #21 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Apertus v1.5 8B (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Documentation and upkeep, 84 against 70\n\nWatch for: No released runtime supports it, only Swiss AI's forks of vLLM and Transformers\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a fast tool-calling reasoning model with long context and a permissive licence\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 85 against 40\n- Agent interface, 90 against 85\n\nWatch for: No safety evaluation results published\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Apertus v1.5 8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 40 | 85 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +45 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 75 | 75 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 90 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 84 | 70 | Apertus v1.5 8B +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **64.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Apertus v1.5 8B | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL and ETH Zurich) | NVIDIA |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0, with the Apertus Acceptable Use Policy (v1.5, 14 July 2026) accepted at the download gate | OpenMDW-1.1 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-08-11 |\n| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Apertus v1.5 8B.** A fully open 8B cousin, training data included, for multilingual chat and tool calls with images and audio in. It needs about 22 GB in BF16 and Swiss AI's own vLLM or Transformers fork, since no released runtime supports it. The main risks are a gated download with a policy to pass on and tools that fail with thinking on.\n\n**Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B.** A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Apertus v1.5 8B\n\n1. Accept the terms on the card and set HF_TOKEN before downloading\n2. Use Swiss AI's Docker image ghcr.io/swiss-ai/vllm_apertus_1.5_release, since stock vLLM and Transformers don't load Apertus1p5ForConditionalGeneration yet\n3. Serve with `--chat-template-content-format string --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser apertus` for tools, and leave thinking off when you need tools\n4. For thinking, set `--reasoning-parser apertus` and `--default-chat-template-kwargs.enable_thinking true`, and budget max tokens generously\n5. Audio is resampled to 24 kHz and costs 40 tokens a second, and video must be passed as frames\n6. Don't cast the loaded model with .half(), the image and audio tokenizers must stay in F32\n7. If you redistribute the weights, the policy says you must pass it on and get the recipient's express assent\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`, about 19 to 25 GB of files depending on the platform\n2. On the reference machine use `llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja`, since the card's Q4_K_M tag doesn't exist there and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs\n3. With vLLM serve it with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder` (SGLang uses `--reasoning-parser nemotron_3`)\n4. Use `temperature=1.0` and `top_p=0.95`, as the card says\n5. Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks\n6. For coding agents pass `force_nonempty_content: true` in `chat_template_kwargs`, which vLLM's nemotron_v3 parser reads so a cut-off reasoning trace still returns content\n7. Go past 262,144 tokens only with the card's flags (`VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1`, `--max-model-len 1048576`) and enough memory\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Apertus v1.5 8B or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against Apertus v1.5 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Apertus v1.5 8B leads on documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apertus-v1-5-8b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apertus-v1-5-8b-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"apertus-v1-5-8b\", \"b\": \"nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b\"}`. 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