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

InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview vs MiniCPM-o 4.5

MiniCPM-o 4.5 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview's 51.2 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview leads on risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-PreviewOpenGVLab (Shanghai AI Laboratory) · Open-weight model D51.2/100#90 of 100 open-weight models MiniCPM-o 4.5OpenBMB · Open-weight model C61/100#42 of 100 open-weight models

Which one, for what

InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview D

Best for Agents with 64 GB to spare that want an Apache-licensed image and video reader with optional thinking and can live with a stale preview.

Ahead on

  • Risk, 55 against 40
  • Agent interface, 45 against 35

Watch for

No quantised build from OpenGVLab, so about 51 GB at BF16

MiniCPM-o 4.5 C

Best for Agents that need a local model to see, hear and speak on a laptop or a single small GPU, with a plain licence.

Ahead on

  • Reach, 90 against 60
  • Documentation and upkeep, 66 against 28

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.8 out of 5

Watch for

Speech output and full duplex need trust_remote_code with Transformers 4.51.0 or OpenBMB's llama.cpp-omni

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runInternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-PreviewMiniCPM-o 4.5Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%256090MiniCPM-o 4.5 +30
Risk20%205540InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview +15
Agent interface10%104535InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview +10
Documentation and upkeep10%102866MiniCPM-o 4.5 +38
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 51.2/100C 61/100

Facts side by side

FactInternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-PreviewMiniCPM-o 4.5
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorOpenGVLab (Shanghai AI Laboratory)OpenBMB
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0; a merge of openai/gpt-oss-20b (Apache 2.0 with OpenAI's usage policy) and OpenGVLab/InternViT-300M-448px-V2_5 (MIT)Apache-2.0; built from Qwen3-8B, SigLIP2, Whisper-medium and CosyVoice2, all Apache 2.0 on their Hub cards
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2025-09-082026-10-16
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)2.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview

An image and video reader on gpt-oss-20b with an optional thinking mode, a preview untouched for over a year. It needs about 51 GB in BF16, since OpenGVLab publishes no quantised build, and runs in Transformers and vLLM. The main risk is a chat template in the Transformers-format repository that doesn't match its tokenizer, with no safety results.

MiniCPM-o 4.5

A small omni cousin that sees, listens and talks back, with full-duplex speech and voice cloning, in about 7 GB at 4-bit through llama.cpp or Ollama for text and images. Speech output needs OpenBMB's remote code or llama.cpp-omni, and 28 GB of GPU for the full demo. The main risks are repository code and pickle files and no safety results.

Before you call either

InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview

  1. Serve with vllm serve OpenGVLab/InternVL3_5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview-HF --max-model-len 32768, which is our command; the card gives none for vLLM
  2. Check the rendered prompt before relying on it, since the shipped template's <|im_start|> markers aren't tokens in the gpt-oss tokenizer; the GitHub-format repository's harmony template is the alternative
  3. Use Transformers 4.55.0 or later, as the card requires for this size
  4. For thinking, send the card's thinking system prompt and parse the reasoning out of the <think> tags, with temperature 0.6 and sampling on as the card advises
  5. Keep inputs within 32K tokens, the length it was trained at, whatever the config says

MiniCPM-o 4.5

  1. Quickest start for text and images is ollama run openbmb/minicpm-o4.5, about 6 GB
  2. With vLLM 0.16.0 or later pass --trust-remote-code, and send stop_token_ids [151643, 151645] as OpenBMB's guide does
  3. vLLM, llama.cpp and Ollama return text only; for speech out use the card's Transformers 4.51.0 code or OpenBMB's llama.cpp-omni
  4. In llama.cpp pass both the language GGUF and MiniCPM-o-4_5-vision-F16.gguf with --mmproj, and use --jinja --reasoning-budget 0 to turn thinking off
  5. Keep prompts within 40,960 tokens
  6. Don't rely on tool calls or JSON output, neither is documented; validate any you get

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview or MiniCPM-o 4.5?

MiniCPM-o 4.5 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview's 51.2 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview leads on risk and agent interface.

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