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

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B vs Olmo 3 7B Think

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Olmo 3 7B Think's 52.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Olmo 3 7B Think leads on risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B C

Best for Agents with an external memory framework that want a local model for the write path on a 24 GB card

Ahead on

  • Reach, 85 against 75
  • Agent interface, 65 against 35
  • Documentation and upkeep, 68 against 52

Watch for

Not a general assistant or a tool caller

Olmo 3 7B Think D

Best for Researchers and agents that want a small fully open reasoning model for maths and code, with its training data on hand

Ahead on

  • Risk, 75 against 60

Watch for

Not trained for tool calling, and the tool format lives only in the template

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 Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +30

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 65

Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, the card doesn't mention tools. Trained tool calling 10, the template can render tool calls, but the card presents the model as a memory writer that returns memories as text or JSON and says nothing of calling tools. Structured output 5, the card's quickstart asks for a JSON object with a memories list in the system prompt and shows nothing else, no response_format and no schema, so JSON output is shown by example without a documented way to constrain it. Reasoning control 10, the card passes reasoning_effort as no_think per request through chat_template_kwargs, and the template takes high, low or no_think. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native (max_position_embeddings in config.json). 20 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 10 + 10 = 65.

Olmo 3 7B Think 35

The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 10, since only the template and vLLM's own parser describe it. Trained tool calling earns nothing, because Ai2's report says tool calling was trained into the Instruct model, not Think. Structured output earns nothing. Reasoning control earns nothing, since it always thinks. Context earns 5 for 65,536 tokens trained. 20 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 35.

Documentation and upkeep Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +16

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 68

Model card 8, Intended use (the write path of Mem0, MemOS and Hy-Memory), parameters (30B, about 3B active) and languages (English and Chinese, in the metadata) are there. Training data 5, A general description of the two training stages inside the harnesses, with no datasets, sizes or cut-off. Last change 20, the last commit, on 16 October 2026, added the licence and the card, 25 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Of the 4 discussions that aren't pull requests (16 to 30 October 2026), 3 have a reply from a tencent organisation member. Version policy 5, A first release, with nothing replaced. File health 10, Config, tokenizer and template agree on the architecture, the context and the thinking levels. 8 + 5 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 68.

Olmo 3 7B Think 52

The model card earns 17, missing only the context length. Training data earns the full 20, as every dataset is released with sources and sizes. The last change earns 10, a card fix on 25 June 2026, within 180 days. Responsiveness earns nothing, with no Ai2 reply among the 4 replies in the discussions. Version policy earns 5, with earlier and later models in their own repositories and no dated notes. File health earns nothing, because the template's default prompt contradicts the card's on the cut-off and a stray swap file and an unanswered report sit in the repository. 17 + 20 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 0 = 52.

Risk Olmo 3 7B Think +15

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 60

File safety 25, 51 safetensors shards and no pickle or Python files. Provenance 15, files in the tencent organisation that the card's own resource list links to (10), with a SHA-256 listed for all 53 large files (5). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 0, no prompt-injection guidance, instruction hierarchy, account of trained refusals or general cautions on the card. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 with no use policy, no field-of-use limit, no threshold and no clause letting Tencent change the terms. Security programme 5, Tencent's Security Response Center takes vulnerability reports company-wide with published reward rules, as the Hy3 listing records (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 5 = 60.

Olmo 3 7B Think 75

File safety earns 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs. Provenance earns 15, files in the allenai organisation Ai2 links to, with a checksum for every file. Safety evaluation earns 20, as Ai2 publishes its safety results and the OLMES harness to rerun them. Agent guidance earns 5 for the card's general cautions. Licence risk earns 5, losing 5 for disallowed uses beyond the law and 5 because Ai2 can update the guidelines and end access at its discretion. The security programme earns 5 for a reporting route, a security.txt now past its expiry and a channel for security concerns in the guidelines, with no public advisories. 25 + 15 + 20 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 75.

Reach Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +10

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B 85

Memory 25, Tencent's own Q4_K_M GGUF is 18.24 GB, and 18.24 GB × 1.2 = 21.9 GB, which fits 24 GB but not 16 GB. Its Q3_K_M file and the two files with experts at 1 or 2 bits are below 4-bit precision and don't count. Runtimes 20, hy_v3 model code in released vLLM (HYV3ForCausalLM in the v0.33.0 registry), SGLang v0.5.23 (hunyuan_v3.py), Transformers v5.22.2 and llama.cpp b12242, 5 each. Builds 15, Tencent publishes an FP8 repository and a GGUF repository with Q4_K_M, Q6_K and Q8_0 files in its own organisation, so quantised builds at two precisions or more. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, with only a preamble naming Tencent as copyright holder above the licence text. Download 10, gated is false for the main, FP8 and GGUF repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account or terms to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face lists no inference provider for the model (an empty provider mapping on 10 November 2026), and the card names no API. 25 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 85.

Olmo 3 7B Think 75

Memory earns the full 30, since Ollama's 4-bit build is 4.5 GB and fits 8 GB (per the 21 October check of Ollama's library). Runtimes earn 25, with released llama.cpp (b11963), Ollama (v0.40.14, pinning b11963), vLLM, LM Studio and Transformers all running it. Builds earn nothing, because Ai2 publishes no quantised build of its own. Terms earn 10, since the card binds Apache 2.0 to Ai2's Responsible Use Guidelines, a use policy. Download earns 10, with no gate. Hosted earns nothing, as the Hub's provider mapping is empty and Ai2 has no API for it. 30 + 25 + 0 + 10 + 10 + 0 = 75.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHy-Memory-30B-A3BOlmo 3 7B ThinkEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%258575Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +10
Risk20%206075Olmo 3 7B Think +15
Agent interface10%106535Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +30
Documentation and upkeep10%106852Hy-Memory-30B-A3B +16
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100D 52.3/100

Facts side by side

FactHy-Memory-30B-A3BOlmo 3 7B Think
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorTencent (Hy team)Ai2 (Allen Institute for AI)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Apache-2.0, with Ai2's Responsible Use Guidelines named on the card
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-162026-06-25
Terms last updatedno document linked2024-09-25
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2025-02-19
Customer content may train modelsnot read yetyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot read yetnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot read yetnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot read yetyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot read yetnot found in the text
Agent reviewsnone2.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B

A specialist that writes an agent's long-term memory, built to slot into Mem0, MemOS or Tencent's own framework in place of a general model. It fits a 24 GB card from Tencent's own GGUF, under plain Apache 2.0, and Tencent answers on the repository. Its results are Tencent's own and nobody has rerun them.

Olmo 3 7B Think

A fully open 7B reasoning model for maths, code and step-by-step answers, with every dataset and checkpoint published and its safety results rerunnable. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 5.4 GB. It always thinks, wasn't trained for tool calls, has 65K of context, and Ai2 hasn't answered its discussions.

Before you call either

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B

  1. Use it as the writer model in Mem0, MemOS or Hy-Memory, not as the model that answers the user
  2. Start it with llama-server -hf tencent/Hy-Memory-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja, or with vLLM under the served name hy-memory as the card does
  3. Pass reasoning_effort as no_think in chat_template_kwargs and temperature 0, as the card's example does
  4. Ask for a JSON object in the system prompt and validate it yourself, since no schema constraint is documented
  5. Treat what it stores as unverified. It keeps what a conversation says, true or not

Olmo 3 7B Think

  1. Quickest start is ollama run olmo-3:7b-think, about 4.5 GB
  2. With vLLM, vllm serve allenai/Olmo-3-7B-Think --max-model-len 65536; vLLM runs it through its Transformers backend
  3. Sample at temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95 with up to 32,768 output tokens, as the card recommends, since thinking traces are long
  4. Every reply starts with a think block; strip it yourself or use a reasoning parser that reads think tags
  5. Pass your own system prompt; the template's default says the cut-off is November 2024 and that no functions are available
  6. For tool calls use Olmo 3 7B Instruct instead, which Ai2 trained for function calling
  7. A discussion reports endless reasoning loops when served with vLLM, unanswered, so cap max_tokens
  8. Check the use against Ai2's Responsible Use Guidelines, which bar automated social-media posting and undisclosed automated content outside research

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Hy-Memory-30B-A3B or Olmo 3 7B Think?

Hy-Memory-30B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Olmo 3 7B Think's 52.3 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Olmo 3 7B Think leads on risk.

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