# Fara1.5-4B vs Mage-VL-Cowork (slim)

> Fara1.5-4B and Mage-VL-Cowork score within a point of each other for desktop app control, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Fara1.5-4B and Mage-VL-Cowork score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Mage-VL-Cowork leads on agent interface. Both do desktop app control.

- Fara1.5-4B: C 61, rank #63 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fara1-5-4b.min.md
- Mage-VL-Cowork: C 61, rank #74 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mage-vl-cowork.min.md
- Fara1.5-4B, good for Developers building a supervised web-browsing agent who want open weights and clear safety behaviour Ahead on Reach, 75 against 60; Risk, 75 against 65; Documentation and upkeep, 60 against 54.
- Mage-VL-Cowork, good for Agents with one GPU and a sandboxed Linux desktop that want a small local model to carry out office and file tasks by GUI and shell Ahead on Agent interface, 85 against 80.

| Category | Fara1.5-4B | Mage-VL-Cowork |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 75 | 60 |
| Risk (20%) | 75 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 80 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 60 | 54 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Fara1.5-4B | Mage-VL-Cowork |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-07-27 | 2026-10-30 |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Fara1.5-4B +15: Fara1.5-4B 75 (Memory 30, the only build from Microsoft is the BF16 safetensors, 9.08 GB, and 9.08 GB × 1.2 = 10.9 GB, within 16 GB.); Mage-VL-Cowork 60 (Memory earns the full 30, since the only build is 9.50 GB of BF16 files that need about 11.4 GB with the fifth added.)
- Risk, Fara1.5-4B +10: Fara1.5-4B 75 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.); Mage-VL-Cowork 65 (File safety gets 15, safetensors only but loaded with trust_remote_code.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Fara1.5-4B +6: Fara1.5-4B 60 (Model card 20, Intended use, out-of-scope use and known limitations, the architecture, the parameters, the context, the language (English only) and the data cut…); Mage-VL-Cowork 54 (The card covers intended use, architecture, parameters, context and language, and misses limitations and a cut-off (14).)
- Agent interface, Mage-VL-Cowork +5: Fara1.5-4B 80 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (7,756 characters), Qwen 3.5's template.); Mage-VL-Cowork 85 (Read for a computer-use model, the tool-calling, trained tool calling and structured-output lines stand for what it takes and returns.)