Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
Cosmos-Reason2-2B vs Ornith-1.5-122B
Ornith-1.5-122B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Cosmos-Reason2-2B's 59.5 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Cosmos-Reason2-2B leads on risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
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Which one, for what
Best for Agents that need a small local model to reason over camera footage and images for robotics, driving or smart spaces
Ahead on
- Risk, 60 against 50
Watch for
Gated behind a click-through licence that needs a Hugging Face account
Best for Local coding and terminal agents on a 128 GB unified-memory machine or a 96 GB GPU setup, where a clear licence file and an answering publisher aren't required
Ahead on
- Reach, 75 against 65
- Agent interface, 85 against 65
Watch for
No LICENSE file though the card links one, and no notice for the Apache 2.0 Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 work it builds on
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Agent interface Ornith-1.5-122B +20
Cosmos-Reason2-2B 65
A Jinja template ships as chat_template.json (20). Tools are declared only by the template it inherits from Qwen3-VL, with no NVIDIA documentation or parser (10), and nothing shows the 2B was trained for tool use (0). NVIDIA's prompt files ask for JSON with named keys for boxes, events and trajectories (15). Reasoning is asked for in the prompt and vLLM's qwen3 parser returns it apart (10). The card states 256K input tokens (10).
Ornith-1.5-122B 85
Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 25, the card shows how tools go in and how calls come back and names the parser for vLLM and SGLang. Trained tool calling 20, Ornith trains it on agent tasks and the template renders several calls in one turn. Structured output 0, not documented or claimed. Reasoning control 10, Ornith's template reads enable_thinking per request and the card says the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content, though the card doesn't name the switch. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native.
Reach Ornith-1.5-122B +10
Cosmos-Reason2-2B 65
Memory earns the full 30 because the BF16 file is 4.9 GB, about 5.9 GB with the fifth added, though NVIDIA itself asks for 24 GB of GPU memory. Runtimes get 20 because the model keeps Qwen3-VL's architecture, which Transformers, vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp run in released versions, while LM Studio's catalogue has only the base. Builds score 0, as NVIDIA publishes no quantised build of the 2B. The NVIDIA Open Model License allows free commercial use under a use policy (10). The gate is an automatic click-through that needs an account (5), and nothing hosts the 2B (0).
Ornith-1.5-122B 75
Memory 10, since Ornith's own MLX 4-bit build is 69.7 GB and needs about 83.6 GB with the fifth added, over 64 GB and inside the reference machine's 107.4 GB, as do its Q4_K_M GGUF, its NVFP4 build and Ollama's build. Runtimes 25, the most the line gives, from vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23, Transformers 5.22.2, llama.cpp's qwen35moe architecture, Ollama's library and LM Studio's catalogue for the qwen35moe architecture. Builds 15, Ornith publishes FP8, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX at several precisions. Terms 15, MIT as named in the card's metadata, with nothing added, read by its terms though the repository has no licence file. Download 10, nothing is gated. Hosted 0, Ornith runs no API and no inference provider serves it. 10 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 75.
Risk Cosmos-Reason2-2B +10
Cosmos-Reason2-2B 60
File safety gets the full 25, one safetensors file loaded by Transformers' own code with a template, no remote code. Provenance gets 15 for files in NVIDIA's own organisation with hashes. The licence has a use policy and guardrail clause and NVIDIA can revoke or update it, so licence risk keeps 5 of 15. NVIDIA's PSIRT route and bulletins give the security programme 10. Agent guidance gets 5 for general cautions about guardrails and physical risk, and safety evaluation 0, with no safety results.
Ornith-1.5-122B 50
File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only and no Python in any of Ornith's repositories for this size, so the card's --trust-remote-code flag loads nothing from the repository. Provenance 15, the files come from the ornith-ai organisation Ornith's blog links to, with a SHA-256 for every weight file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either. Licence risk 10, MIT carries no policy, threshold or changeable terms, but the card's licence link is broken. Security programme 0, no security.txt, disclosure policy or security contact.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Cosmos-Reason2-2B | Ornith-1.5-122B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 65 | 75 | Ornith-1.5-122B +10 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 60 | 50 | Cosmos-Reason2-2B +10 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 65 | 85 | Ornith-1.5-122B +20 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 39 | 36 | Cosmos-Reason2-2B +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 59.5/100 | C 61/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Cosmos-Reason2-2B | Ornith-1.5-122B |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | NVIDIA | Ornith |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | NVIDIA Open Model License (custom, commercial use allowed, not an OSI licence); built on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct under Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-03-10 | 2026-10-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-10-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |
Verdicts
Cosmos-Reason2-2B
A small local model for reasoning over video and images in robotics, driving and warehouse scenes, returning points, boxes and timed events as JSON. The 4.9 GB file runs in Transformers or vLLM, though NVIDIA asks for 24 GB of GPU memory. Development has moved to Cosmos 3, and the gated licence is revocable.
Ornith-1.5-122B
The largest Ornith that fits a 128 GB machine, a coding and terminal-agent cousin on Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's architecture with XML tool calls and 262,144 tokens of context. Its 4-bit builds need 84 to 93 GB. The main risk is an absent publisher, with no licence file, safety results or replies, and a card that misstates the hardware.
Before you call either
Cosmos-Reason2-2B
- Accept the licence on the Hugging Face card with a signed-in account and set HF_TOKEN before downloading
- Serve it with
vllm serve nvidia/Cosmos-Reason2-2B --max-model-len 16384 --media-io-kwargs '{"video": {"num_frames": -1}}' --reasoning-parser qwen3, keeping max-model-len between 8,192 and 16,384 as NVIDIA advises - For local video or images, make a folder for them (
mkdir -p media) and pass--allowed-local-media-path "$(pwd)/media", so the server can read only that folder, not everything under the directory you start it from - Sample video at 4 fps and allow at least 4,096 output tokens so the reasoning isn't cut off
- For reasoning, add the card's instruction to answer with a think block and then the answer; leave it out for a direct reply
- Use NVIDIA's prompt files (prompts/*.yaml in nvidia-cosmos/cosmos-reason2) when you want JSON boxes, events or trajectories, and validate the JSON yourself
- Check its plans before a robot acts on them, since NVIDIA's own safety card warns of collision and manipulation risks
Ornith-1.5-122B
- Start it with
ollama run ornith-1.5:122b-q4_K_M, orllama-server -hf ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-122B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 262144 - Budget about 92 GB for the Q4_K_M GGUF with a working context, and less context if the machine has under 100 GB for the model
- In vLLM pass
--enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml --reasoning-parser qwen3, and in SGLang--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --reasoning-parser qwen3, so tool calls and reasoning come back parsed - Thinking is on by default. Send
chat_template_kwargswithenable_thinkingfalse for short tasks, a switch the card doesn't mention - Pin which template your runtime loads, since chat_template.jinja keeps earlier reasoning and the tokenizer_config.json template drops it
- Use temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 for coding and temperature 1.0 for general tasks, as the card recommends
- Add mmproj-Ornith-1.5-122B-BF16.gguf (0.9 GB) for image input in llama.cpp, and validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Cosmos-Reason2-2B or Ornith-1.5-122B?
Ornith-1.5-122B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Cosmos-Reason2-2B's 59.5 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Cosmos-Reason2-2B leads on risk.
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