{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "bigbang-v1", "name": "BigBang-v1", "vendor": "The Endless Frontier (endless-frontier)", "vendorUrl": "https://huggingface.co/endless-frontier", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "BigBang-v1 is The Endless Frontier's general-purpose fine-tune of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (35B mixture of experts, 3B active), post-trained on about 10,000 synthetic research and technical problems, published on Hugging Face in BF16 under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigbang-v1", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigbang-v1.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigbang-v1.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigbang-v1.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/endless-frontier/BigBang-v1", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "endless-frontier/BigBang-v1" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, the same licence as the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B base. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 71.9 GB for the BF16 files, the only build from the publisher (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, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/endless-frontier/BigBang-v1", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "derivative", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.4, "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": 67, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 60, "reach": 55, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 46 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fine-tuned on synthetic research problems, under plain Apache 2.0, for search, science and coding work. The publisher ships BF16 only, about 86 GB to run, and has no report, safety results or replies to questions, so smaller builds and support come from others.", "bestFor": "Agents with 96 GB or more that want an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts model tuned for research, search and coding, and can do without publisher support.", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 like its base, not gated", "Same architecture, config and template as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, so released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run it", "Safetensors only with a SHA-256 for every weight file", "262,144 tokens of context and several tool calls a turn" ], "weaknesses": [ "BF16 is the only build from the publisher, needing about 86 GB", "No report, safety results, agent guidance or security contact", "Training data described only as about 10,000 synthetic examples", "No reply from the publisher to any of 7 discussions", "Every benchmark figure is the publisher's own, with no set-up stated" ], "agentNotes": [ "On the reference machine use `vllm serve endless-frontier/BigBang-v1 --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`", "The card says to keep at least 128K of context so its thinking isn't cut short", "Thinking control isn't documented, try the base template's `enable_thinking` false in chat_template_kwargs and check the output", "For a smaller build you'll need someone else's quantisation, the publisher has none", "Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 60, "reach": 55, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 46 }, "provenanceScore": 13, "checked": { "categories": { "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": "vllm serve endless-frontier/BigBang-v1 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\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 '{\"model\": \"endless-frontier/BigBang-v1\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bigbang-v1" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "The Endless Frontier (endless-frontier)", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Apache 2.0), declared in the card's metadata (base_model) and text. Identical config.json, parameter count and chat template, and the repository's LICENSE is Qwen's Apache 2.0 file. BigBang is also Apache 2.0", "params": "35B (3B active)", "active": "3B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "General-purpose mixture-of-experts model tuned for scientific research, search and coding tasks with thinking on, text and images in.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "BigBang-v1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/endless-frontier/BigBang-v1", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 71.9, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)", "Transformers" ] } ], "run": "vllm serve endless-frontier/BigBang-v1 --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "runBuild": "BigBang-v1", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 96 }, "family": { "lab": "The Endless Frontier (endless-frontier)", "family": "BigBang", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#endless-frontier", "olderCount": 2, "unrestrictedCopies": 3 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "No legal entity, website, paper or GitHub repository is named on the card. The Hugging Face organisation endless-frontier (fullname The Endless Frontier, 17 members, three models) isn't verified.", "Nothing is hosted by the publisher, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. The commit messages are uploads and benchmark-table fixes.", "No security.txt, since there is no domain." ], "score": 13 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigbang-v1.json" }, "answer": "Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against BigBang-v1's 54.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "granite-4-2-3b", "name": "Granite 4.2 3B", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "granite4.2:3b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. None of IBM's 4.2 3B repositories is gated (checked 2026-10-21). The files carry a sigstore signature (model.sig) that IBM documents how to verify.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. watsonx.ai lists Granite 4.1 models but not 4.2, and DeepInfra is the only inference provider Hugging Face maps for it. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 7.3 GB for the BF16 files and 2.2 GB for Ollama's Q4_K_M 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, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "small", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "fp8", "fp4", "gguf", "mlx", "signed", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.8, "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": 49, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 21, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.", "bestFor": "Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, ungated, signed with sigstore in IBM's own organisation", "2.2 GB as Ollama's Q4_K_M build, with IBM's own FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX builds", "Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Tool format and parser documented for vLLM and SGLang, with several calls a turn", "Thinking that turns off or runs at low effort per request", "A machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets with sources and sizes" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions", "No documented JSON or schema output", "The card's vLLM route loads a parser plugin from the repository", "Only one inference provider, and watsonx.ai doesn't list 4.2", "No knowledge cut-off, and Granite 4.1 3B carries no note that 4.2 replaced it" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072", "With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed", "With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content", "Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires", "Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server", "Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history", "For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2", "Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 21, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "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 granite4.2:3b\n# or, with vLLM 0.32.0 or later:\nvllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b --max-model-len 131072 \\\n --reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser \\\n --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"granite4.2:3b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-4-2-3b" }, "sameCompany": [ "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "granite-guardian", "granite-switch" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "IBM", "builtOn": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-base (IBM's own base checkpoint, post-trained; named on the card and in its metadata)", "params": "3.66B", "context": 131072, "goodFor": "Small dense reasoning model for tool calling, coding and multilingual chat, with thinking that is on, off or short per request.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-fp8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 4.19, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ] }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 2.81, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mxfp4", "sizeGB": 2.71, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-4.2-3b-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 3.89, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ] }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-4.2-3b-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 2.24, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "IBM's GGUF repository also holds Q2_K to Q6_K, Q4_0, Q4_1, Q5_0, Q5_1 and BF16 files; Q4_0 is the smallest 4-bit GGUF at 2.13 GB" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4", "sizeGB": 2.07, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "mlx-lm" ], "note": "The smallest build at 4-bit or better. IBM also publishes q8-mlx (3.90 GB) and bf16-mlx (7.33 GB)" }, { "name": "ollama granite4.2:3b", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/granite4.2:3b", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 2.2, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q4_K_M, 3.66B parameters, granite architecture, per Ollama's model page (digest 40577dc168a3). Size as Ollama shows it" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 7.33, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ] } ], "run": "ollama run granite4.2:3b", "runBuild": "ollama granite4.2:3b", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "IBM (Granite)", "family": "Granite 4 (4.0, 4.1, 4.2)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ibm", "others": [ { "name": "granite-4.2-8b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.79B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-30b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 29.28B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-8b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.38B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-8b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.79B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-3b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-base", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 3.40B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-3b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 3.40B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-30b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-base", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 28.87B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-30b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 28.87B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m-base", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b-base", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-350m-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m-base", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-350m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-1b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-base", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-micro-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro-base", "params": "3.40B (Hub safetensors count; 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Granite 4.2 3B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "bigbang-v1": 55, "by": 40, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 95, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "bigbang-v1": 55, "by": 0, "edge": "", "granite-4-2-3b": 55, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "bigbang-v1": 60, "by": 25, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "bigbang-v1": 46, "by": 46, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 92, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against BigBang-v1's 54.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "bigbang-v1": "A Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fine-tuned on synthetic research problems, under plain Apache 2.0, for search, science and coding work. The publisher ships BF16 only, about 86 GB to run, and has no report, safety results or replies to questions, so smaller builds and support come from others.", "granite-4-2-3b": "A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-granite-4-2-3b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-granite-4-2-3b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-granite-4-2-3b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-granite-4-2-3b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against BigBang-v1's 54.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- BigBang-v1: grade C, 54.4/100, rank #83 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigbang-v1.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigbang-v1.json\n- Granite 4.2 3B: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #57 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.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### BigBang-v1 (C)\n\nGood for: Agents with 96 GB or more that want an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts model tuned for research, search and coding, and can do without publisher support.\n\nWatch for: BF16 is the only build from the publisher, needing about 86 GB\n\n### Granite 4.2 3B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 55\n- Agent interface, 85 against 60\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 46\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 2.3 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BigBang-v1 | Granite 4.2 3B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 55 | 95 | Granite 4.2 3B +40 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 55 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 60 | 85 | Granite 4.2 3B +25 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 46 | 92 | Granite 4.2 3B +46 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.4 · C** | **59.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BigBang-v1 | Granite 4.2 3B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | The Endless Frontier (endless-frontier) | IBM |\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 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-06 | 2026-10-20 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 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 | 2.3/5 (4) | 3.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**BigBang-v1.** A Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fine-tuned on synthetic research problems, under plain Apache 2.0, for search, science and coding work. The publisher ships BF16 only, about 86 GB to run, and has no report, safety results or replies to questions, so smaller builds and support come from others.\n\n**Granite 4.2 3B.** A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### BigBang-v1\n\n1. On the reference machine use `vllm serve endless-frontier/BigBang-v1 --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n2. The card says to keep at least 128K of context so its thinking isn't cut short\n3. Thinking control isn't documented, try the base template's `enable_thinking` false in chat_template_kwargs and check the output\n4. For a smaller build you'll need someone else's quantisation, the publisher has none\n5. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding\n\n### Granite 4.2 3B\n\n1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072\n2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed\n3. With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content\n4. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires\n5. Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server\n6. Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history\n7. For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2\n8. Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, BigBang-v1 or Granite 4.2 3B?\n\nGranite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against BigBang-v1's 54.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-granite-4-2-3b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-granite-4-2-3b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bigbang-v1\", \"b\": \"granite-4-2-3b\"}`. 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