Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run

Cosmos-Reason2-2B vs Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B

Cosmos-Reason2-2B scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

Cosmos-Reason2-2B C

Best for Agents that need a small local model to reason over camera footage and images for robotics, driving or smart spaces

Ahead on

  • Reach, 65 against 55
  • Risk, 60 against 55
  • Agent interface, 65 against 50

Watch for

Gated behind a click-through licence that needs a Hugging Face account

Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B D

Best for Agent builders who want to train or test an agent against simulated tools, terminals, browsers and phones on a 128 GB machine

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

Not a general assistant, and the card doesn't describe using it to call tools

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 Cosmos-Reason2-2B +15

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).

Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B 50

Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, the same as the template in tokenizer_config.json. Tool-calling format 10, only the template says how tools are declared and how calls come back. Trained tool calling 10, the template renders several tool_call blocks in one turn, but the card presents the model as a simulator of what tools and environments return, not as a tool caller. Structured output 0, no JSON or JSON Schema output documented for the model. Reasoning control 0, the card says thinking is on by default and names the qwen3 reasoning parser, but doesn't say how to turn thinking off or budget it. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native per the card and the text config. 20 + 10 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 50.

Reach Cosmos-Reason2-2B +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).

Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B 55

Memory 10, Alibaba's only build is the BF16 safetensors, 69.32 GB, and 69.32 GB × 1.2 = 83.2 GB, above 64 GB and inside the reference machine's GPU share. Runtimes 20, Four released runtimes run the architecture, vLLM 0.33.0 (Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration), SGLang 0.5.23, Transformers 5.22.2 (qwen3_5_moe) and llama.cpp b12242 (its Qwen conversion code). Builds 0, Alibaba publishes the BF16 weights only. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, an OSI licence, in the metadata and as a LICENSE file, with no use policy or other terms added. Download 10, the repository isn't gated, so the files download with no account and no terms to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face lists no inference provider for the model (an empty provider mapping on 10 November 2026). 10 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 55.

Risk Cosmos-Reason2-2B +5

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.

Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B 55

File safety 25, 21 safetensors shards and no pickle or Python files, and config.json has no auto_map. Provenance 15, files sit in the Qwen organisation, the one Alibaba's Qwen repositories on GitHub link to per the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B listing (10), and the Hub gives a SHA-256 for every large file (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 0, no prompt-injection guidance, instruction hierarchy, refusal statement or general cautions on the card. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 has no use policy, no threshold and no terms the licensor can change or revoke, and the card's licence link points at the LICENSE file in the repository. Security programme 0, no reporting route on the card. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCosmos-Reason2-2BQwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3BEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%256555Cosmos-Reason2-2B +10
Risk20%206055Cosmos-Reason2-2B +5
Agent interface10%106550Cosmos-Reason2-2B +15
Documentation and upkeep10%103941Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 59.5/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactCosmos-Reason2-2BQwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen team)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceNVIDIA Open Model License (custom, commercial use allowed, not an OSI licence); built on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct under Apache 2.0Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-03-102026-06-25
Terms last updated2025-10-24no document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train modelsyesnot read yet
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot read yet
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot read yet
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot read yet
Agent reviews2.5/5 (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.

Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B

A specialist, not a chat model. It plays the environment an agent acts in, across seven domains, so you can train or test an agent without the real thing. Alibaba ships BF16 only, which fits a 128 GB machine, and hasn't answered a discussion on it or changed the files since June.

Before you call either

Cosmos-Reason2-2B

  1. Accept the licence on the Hugging Face card with a signed-in account and set HF_TOKEN before downloading
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Sample video at 4 fps and allow at least 4,096 output tokens so the reasoning isn't cut off
  5. For reasoning, add the card's instruction to answer with a think block and then the answer; leave it out for a direct reply
  6. 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
  7. Check its plans before a robot acts on them, since NVIDIA's own safety card warns of collision and manipulation risks

Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B

  1. Use it as the environment, not the agent. Give it the domain's system prompt from Alibaba's GitHub repository, the history and the agent's action, and it returns the predicted observation
  2. With vLLM pass --language-model-only, or startup fails on the missing vision weights
  3. Use temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95 and top_k 20, and allow up to 32,768 output tokens, as the card recommends
  4. Keep at least 128K of context, since the simulation depends on the history
  5. Thinking is on by default and comes back through the qwen3 reasoning parser
  6. A simulated observation is a prediction. Check anything that matters against the real environment

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Cosmos-Reason2-2B or Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B?

Cosmos-Reason2-2B scores 59.5 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.

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