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Head to head · Local inference · October 2026 research run

Berth vs HyperQwen

Berth scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against HyperQwen's 56.9 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do local inference.

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BerthTrevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) · HTTP API B67.6/100#284 of 1238 HyperQwensyv.ai (syv-ai on GitHub) · HTTP API C56.9/100#737 of 1238

Which one, for what

Berth B

Best for Someone running several GPU programs (llama.cpp, llama-swap, Ollama, vLLM, ComfyUI, games) on one NVIDIA card who wants them to take turns, and agents that need to ask for the card.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 76 against 59
  • Schema & documentation, 69 against 56
  • Agent ergonomics, 75 against 65
  • Security & auth, 51 against 41
  • Maintenance & community, 76 against 68
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 55

Watch for

First released on 11 October 2026 and called alpha. Windows, AMD and multiple GPUs are experimental, and the gateway is a preview

HyperQwen C

Best for An operator with one 24 GB NVIDIA card who wants Qwen3.8-27B behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for a coding or tool-calling agent, with long context.

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it

Watch for

Serves Qwen3.8-27B and checkpoints derived from it only. Other models are on the roadmap

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBerthHyperQwenEdge
Reliability16%207659Berth +17
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26956Berth +13
Agent ergonomics13%16.27565Berth +10
Security & auth14%17.55141Berth +10
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87668Berth +8
Transparency & trust7%8.86855Berth +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 67.6/100C 56.9/100

Facts side by side

FactBerthHyperQwen
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorTrevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub)syv.ai (syv-ai on GitHub)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE fileApache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-23none
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno date given
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularity245 stars2.4k stars

Verdicts

Berth

Berth coordinates one NVIDIA card between engines, ComfyUI and games, grants a lease only after the driver shows memory free, and gives agents a skill, JSON output and a keyed loopback gateway. It is 17 days old, alpha and maintained by one developer, with Windows and AMD experimental and no machine-readable API spec.

HyperQwen

HyperQwen packages a patched vLLM 0.32.0 and requantised Qwen3.8-27B weights into one container with tool calling preset and a loopback bind when no key is set. It runs one model family, its speed figures come from one RTX 3090, and it has no versioned releases, changelog or security policy.

Before you call either

Berth

  1. Run berth status --format json before starting, stopping or switching any GPU engine. If berthd is unreachable, no engine is protected
  2. Never kill a process to free VRAM. Ask for the card with berth run, berth hold or a gateway request, and report stowaways to the user
  3. Send gateway requests to http://127.0.0.1:9799/v1 with Authorization: Bearer $(berth key), and use "stream": true for cold starts of up to minutes
  4. On a 503, read the code and wait for Retry-After. A pinned holder (a game or berth hold) answers 409 to stop and is the user's call
  5. Ask the user before berth reclaim LEASE --yes, any berth.toml edit or berth update. Each changes the node

HyperQwen

  1. Call http://127.0.0.1:18020/v1 with model qwen3.8-27b and the VLLM_API_KEY value, or any string if no key was set
  2. Poll /health before the first request. A first start downloads and prepares the model and compiles kernels, which can take over 30 minutes
  3. Declare the context window your setup uses (65,536 by default, 131,072 for CTX=long, 245,760 for CTX=huge) so the client doesn't truncate
  4. Ask the owner to set VLLM_API_KEY before setting BIND=0.0.0.0, and to front the port with a proxy that allowlists routes
  5. Treat the README's tokens-per-second figures as the project's measurements on one RTX 3090 at 250 W

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Berth or HyperQwen?

Berth scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against HyperQwen's 56.9 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Do Berth and HyperQwen need an API key?

Berth needs an API key. HyperQwen needs no key.

Can an agent call Berth and HyperQwen without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Berth. No hosted endpoint is listed for HyperQwen.

Are Berth and HyperQwen open source?

Yes. Berth is open source (Apache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE file). HyperQwen is open source (Apache-2.0).

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