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The repository is not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the Kimi K3 Licence. A company running a model-as-a-service business with more than $20 million in revenue over 12 months needs a separate agreement with Moonshot AI, at a price not published. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 1,561 GB of files (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "modified-mit", "safetensors", "mxfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 24, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 75, "interface": 65, "reach": 50, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 41 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.", "bestFor": "Teams with a multi-node GPU cluster who want an open 1M-context agent model for long coding and research work", "strengths": [ "1,048,576 tokens of context trained in, with indexed parallel tool calls in one turn", "Model code in released vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp, with recipes linked from the card", "A third-party cyber evaluation by the UK AI Security Institute and CAISI", "Safetensors only, with a SHA-256 for every shard, downloadable with no account", "Served by Moonshot's API and five inference providers for agents without the hardware" ], "weaknesses": [ "1,561 GB of files at its smallest publisher build, far beyond any single machine", "No Jinja template, so prompts, tokeniser and model load through Moonshot's Python with trust_remote_code", "No Moonshot reply in the 40 most recent discussions, and a tokeniser report waits unanswered", "No disclosure route for flaws and no prompt-injection guidance", "No training sources, sizes or knowledge cut-off, and the card leaves out limitations and languages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with SGLang on a node of 8 B300s, sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000", "Use the kimi_k3 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, and validate tool-call arguments against the schema, since vLLM's recipe says K3 sometimes emits a format its parser doesn't expect", "Pass the whole assistant message back every turn, reasoning_content and tool_calls included, or output becomes unstable", "Thinking is always on; set reasoning_effort to low or high when max is too slow", "Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, with top-p 0.95 for single-step tasks and 1.0 for agentic ones", "Don't hand an ongoing session from another model to K3, and state boundaries in the system prompt, since Moonshot warns it can act on its own when intent is unclear", "Without the hardware, call it through Moonshot's API or an inference provider listed on its Hugging Face page" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 75, "interface": 65, "reach": 50, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 41 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# SGLang, per its Kimi-K3 cookbook linked from the card (one node of 8 B300 GPUs)\nsglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 \\\n --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 \\\n --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000", "http": "curl http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"moonshotai/Kimi-K3\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"reasoning_effort\": \"high\"\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/kimi-k3" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "Moonshot AI", "params": "2.8T", "active": "104B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Large multimodal agent model for coding and long tool-calling sessions, text and images in, with always-on reasoning and JSON Schema output.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Kimi-K3", "url": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mxfp4", "sizeGB": 1560.9, "memoryGB": 2048, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Trained in MXFP4; the only build Moonshot publishes" } ], "run": "sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000", "runBuild": "Kimi-K3", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 2048 }, "family": { "lab": "Moonshot AI (Kimi)", "family": "Kimi K3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#moonshot", "olderCount": 18, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Moonshot AI (the licence names Moonshot AI; the Kimi Platform terms name Moonshot AI PTE. LTD.)", "domain": "moonshot.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "moonshot.ai's registration date couldn't be read through RDAP on 21 October 2026.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The licence names Moonshot AI. The Kimi Platform's terms (platform.kimi.ai/docs/agreement/modeluse) name Moonshot AI PTE. LTD. as the party for its API.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Kimi K3 Licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history. Its messages mostly say \"Update README.md\" or \"Update encoding_k3.py\" without saying what changed; the last change, on 2 September 2026, added an evaluation result.", "moonshot.ai, www.moonshot.ai, kimi.com and www.kimi.com answered /.well-known/security.txt with an HTML page and platform.kimi.ai with 404 on 21 October 2026, so no security.txt was found. The Kimi-K3 GitHub repository has no SECURITY.md." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3.json" }, "answer": "Kimi K3 scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B leads on reach.", "b": { "slug": "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b", "name": "Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "vendor": "UkisAI", "vendorUrl": "https://ukisai.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B is UkisAI's post-trained Qwen3.8-27B that aims to think in fewer tokens, a 27B dense vision-language model with the base's 262,144-token context, published in BF16 with GGUF, AWQ, NVFP4, FP8 and MLX builds under UkisAI's own licence.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b", "license": "Swift Open License v1.0 (custom, not an OSI licence) on UkisAI's changes, free for commercial use below US$1M gross annual revenue with a separate Swift Enterprise License above it. Built on Qwen3.8-27B, whose Apache 2.0 still governs the base", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports the repository as not gated, though the card's metadata says gated true (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use. Commercial use is free for individuals and organisations whose gross annual revenue, affiliates included, is below US$1,000,000, and needs a separate Swift Enterprise License above it. The base Qwen3.8-27B stays under Apache 2.0. UkisAI's card also lists a free API for research purposes at ukisai.com/api/swift/v1. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 55.6 GB in BF16 and 15.9 to 18.4 GB for the 4-bit builds by the Hub's file lists (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "fine-tune", "custom-licence", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 42, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 60, "reach": 80, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 43 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A Qwen3.8-27B cousin post-trained to think in fewer tokens, for coding and agent work with images in, that fits a 24 GB machine with UkisAI's own 4-bit builds. Commercial use is free only below US$1M revenue. The main risks are that nobody at UkisAI answers its discussions, and that the shorter thinking rests on UkisAI's own benchmarks.", "bestFor": "Agents on a 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want Qwen3.8-27B's skills with shorter thinking, for teams under US$1M revenue or research.", "strengths": [ "UkisAI's own 4-bit builds fit in about 20 GB, with GGUF, INT4, NVFP4, FP8 and MLX choices", "Runs in released vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and llama.cpp as Qwen3.8-27B does, with the same template and 262,144-token context", "Safetensors only, in the account UkisAI's site links to, with a checksum on every file", "Several tool calls a turn and post-training aimed at agent and coding tasks", "Ungated, with no account or terms to accept" ], "weaknesses": [ "Commercial use above US$1M gross annual revenue needs a separate licence", "No reply from UkisAI in any discussion, including reports that the model is broken", "No safety results, agent guidance or security contact", "The card doesn't say how to set reasoning effort, turn thinking off or ask for JSON", "Training data described only in general terms, and the efficiency claims are UkisAI's own runs" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `llama-server -hf ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 18.4 GB with the vision projector", "On our reference machine BF16 fits, `vllm serve ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`", "The template is Qwen3.8-27B's, so `chat_template_kwargs` with `reasoning_effort` low, medium or xhigh (default) and `enable_thinking` false work as on the base", "UkisAI benchmarked it at temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 and presence_penalty 0, which is a reasonable starting point", "The MLX 4-bit build needs UkisAI's patched MLX-LM and has no image or video chat", "Check the licence before commercial use, it stops at US$1M gross annual revenue including affiliates", "MTP self-speculative decoding is available with the base's head, flags on the card" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 60, "reach": 80, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 13, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "vllm serve ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder\n# or the 4-bit GGUF with its vision projector:\nllama-server -hf ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello, Swift.\"}], \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"reasoning_effort\": \"low\"}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, "sameCompany": [ "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "UkisAI, post-training Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (fine-tune by way of Swift 1.0, Apache 2.0)", "params": "27B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "A Qwen3.8-27B that thinks in fewer tokens, for coding and agent work with images in, tool calling and adjustable reasoning effort.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 18.4, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf (17.44 GB) plus mmproj-Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-F16.gguf (0.93 GB), summed from the Hub's file list" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF IQ4_XS", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "iq4_xs", "sizeGB": 16.4, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "The smallest 4-bit GGUF, 15.48 GB plus the 0.93 GB vision projector. The repository also has 2- and 3-bit files down to 8.9 GB, and a GSQ-RCO GGUF repository has 2- and 3-bit files from 8.4 GB" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-4bit-MLX", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-4bit-MLX", "who": "publisher", "precision": "4bit", "sizeGB": 15.9, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "MLX" ], "note": "Weights with the vision tensors, configs and tokenizer, 15.85 GB. Its card says stock MLX-LM 0.32.0 can't load it and ships a patch, and image and video chat aren't implemented" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-W4A16-AWQ", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-W4A16-AWQ", "who": "publisher", "precision": "int4", "sizeGB": 19.6, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "compressed-tensors W4A16. UkisAI also publishes AutoRound INT4 (19.6 GB) and AWQ plus GPTQ INT4 (19.5 GB)" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 21.9, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-Quark-FP8-dynamic-AMD", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b-Quark-FP8-dynamic-AMD", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 31.3, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "note": "AMD Quark W8A8, with Python loading helpers in the repository" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 55.6, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "vllm serve ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "runBuild": "Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "UkisAI (ukisai)", "family": "Swift 1", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ukisai", "others": [ { "name": "Swift-Qwen3.8-27b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-Qwen3.8-27b", "params": "27B (27,781,427,952 by the Hub's safetensors count)" }, { "name": "Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "params": "125B (Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's stated size; MoE; 179,999,981,459 by the Hub's safetensors count)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "name": "Swift-1.5-Ornith-9B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Ornith-9B", "params": "9B (9,653,104,368 by the Hub's safetensors count)" }, { "name": "Swift-Bonsai-2-GGUF", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-Bonsai-2-GGUF", "params": "27B (26,895,998,464 by the Hub's GGUF count)" } ], "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "ukisai.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://huggingface.co/ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b/blob/main/LICENSE", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The licence names UkisAI as licensor with no legal entity. ukisai.com describes a Europe-based applied AI lab in Belgrade, Eindhoven and Wilmington. RDAP wasn't queried.", "The weights are published from the Hugging Face user account ukisai (not an organisation), which ukisai.com's Swift page links to.", "The Swift Open License stands in for terms of service for the weights. The research API isn't graded, so no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. The repository's history was squashed to two commits.", "ukisai.com/.well-known/security.txt is 404, and ukisai/.github has no SECURITY.md." ], "score": 13 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Moonshot AI", "b": "UkisAI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Kimi K3 License (modified MIT)", "b": "Swift Open License v1.0 (custom, not an OSI licence) on UkisAI's changes, free for commercial use below US$1M gross annual revenue with a separate Swift Enterprise License above it. 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"Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-32b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "SmolLM3-3B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/smollm3-3b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spark-x2-6-4b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Spark-X2.6-4B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spark-x2-6-4b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b", "key": "reach", "kimi-k3": 50, "name": "Reach", "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b": 80, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "kimi-k3", "key": "risk", "kimi-k3": 65, "name": "Risk", "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b": 50, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "kimi-k3", "key": "interface", "kimi-k3": 65, "name": "Agent interface", "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b", "key": "upkeep", "kimi-k3": 41, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b": 43, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Kimi K3 scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "kimi-k3": "Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.", "swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b": "A Qwen3.8-27B cousin post-trained to think in fewer tokens, for coding and agent work with images in, that fits a 24 GB machine with UkisAI's own 4-bit builds. Commercial use is free only below US$1M revenue. The main risks are that nobody at UkisAI answers its discussions, and that the shorter thinking rests on UkisAI's own benchmarks." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Kimi K3 scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Kimi K3: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #29 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kimi-k3.json\n- Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B: grade C, 61/100, rank #49 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Kimi K3 (B)\n\nGood for: Teams with a multi-node GPU cluster who want an open 1M-context agent model for long coding and research work\n\nAhead on:\n- Risk, 65 against 50\n- Agent interface, 65 against 60\n\nWatch for: 1,561 GB of files at its smallest publisher build, far beyond any single machine\n\n### Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents on a 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want Qwen3.8-27B's skills with shorter thinking, for teams under US$1M revenue or research.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 80 against 50\n\nWatch for: Commercial use above US$1M gross annual revenue needs a separate licence\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Kimi K3 | Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 50 | 80 | Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B +30 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 65 | 50 | Kimi K3 +15 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 65 | 60 | Kimi K3 +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 41 | 43 | Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.4 · B** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Kimi K3 | Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Moonshot AI | UkisAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Kimi K3 License (modified MIT) | Swift Open License v1.0 (custom, not an OSI licence) on UkisAI's changes, free for commercial use below US$1M gross annual revenue with a separate Swift Enterprise License above it. Built on Qwen3.8-27B, whose Apache 2.0 still governs the base |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 2.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Kimi K3.** Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.\n\n**Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B.** A Qwen3.8-27B cousin post-trained to think in fewer tokens, for coding and agent work with images in, that fits a 24 GB machine with UkisAI's own 4-bit builds. Commercial use is free only below US$1M revenue. The main risks are that nobody at UkisAI answers its discussions, and that the shorter thinking rests on UkisAI's own benchmarks.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Kimi K3\n\n1. Start it with SGLang on a node of 8 B300s, sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000\n2. Use the kimi_k3 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, and validate tool-call arguments against the schema, since vLLM's recipe says K3 sometimes emits a format its parser doesn't expect\n3. Pass the whole assistant message back every turn, reasoning_content and tool_calls included, or output becomes unstable\n4. Thinking is always on; set reasoning_effort to low or high when max is too slow\n5. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, with top-p 0.95 for single-step tasks and 1.0 for agentic ones\n6. Don't hand an ongoing session from another model to K3, and state boundaries in the system prompt, since Moonshot warns it can act on its own when intent is unclear\n7. Without the hardware, call it through Moonshot's API or an inference provider listed on its Hugging Face page\n\n### Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B\n\n1. Quickest start is `llama-server -hf ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 18.4 GB with the vision projector\n2. On our reference machine BF16 fits, `vllm serve ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27b --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n3. The template is Qwen3.8-27B's, so `chat_template_kwargs` with `reasoning_effort` low, medium or xhigh (default) and `enable_thinking` false work as on the base\n4. UkisAI benchmarked it at temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 and presence_penalty 0, which is a reasonable starting point\n5. The MLX 4-bit build needs UkisAI's patched MLX-LM and has no image or video chat\n6. Check the licence before commercial use, it stops at US$1M gross annual revenue including affiliates\n7. MTP self-speculative decoding is available with the base's head, flags on the card\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Kimi K3 or Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B?\n\nKimi K3 scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B's 61 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B leads on reach.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-k3-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"kimi-k3\", \"b\": \"swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b\"}`. 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