# Kronos vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B (slim)

> MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B scores 61 (C) to Kronos's 55.2 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Kronos's 55.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Kronos leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Kronos: C 55.2, rank #122 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kronos.min.md
- MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B: C 61, rank #76 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm-v-4-7-1b.min.md
- Kronos, good for Agents that need a quick local forecast or synthetic sample of a candlestick series on modest hardware, for research or as one input among others. Ahead on Documentation and upkeep, 61 against 48.
- MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B, good for Agents that need a cheap local model to read screenshots, photos and short video on a phone, a laptop or beside a bigger model Ahead on Reach, 95 against 55; Risk, 55 against 50; Agent interface, 70 against 60.

| Category | Kronos | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 55 | 95 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 60 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 61 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Kronos | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Yu Shi (shiyu-coder, NeoQuasar), Tsinghua University | OpenBMB |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-04-13 | 2026-10-30 |
| Popularity | 43k stars | none |

Why the edge:
- Reach, MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +40: Kronos 55 (Memory 30, the publisher's Kronos-mini with its tokeniser is 0.03 GB and even Kronos-base is 0.43 GB in FP32. Runtimes 0, it runs only through the publisher's o…); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 95 (Memory 30, OpenBMB's own IQ4_XS GGUF is 0.64 GB, 1.54 GB with the 0.90 GB vision projector, and 1.54 GB × 1.2 = 1.9 GB, which fits 16 GB with room to spare.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Kronos +13: Kronos 61 (Model card 11, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, limitations, languages and a cut-off aren't.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 48 (Model card 8, Intended use (image, multi-image and video understanding on device), architecture (early visual-token compression inside the vision encoder) and p…)
- Agent interface, MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +10: Kronos 60 (Read for a forecasting model, the tool-calling, trained tool calling and structured-output lines stand for what it takes and returns.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 70 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, 7,249 characters.)
- Risk, MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +5: Kronos 50 (File safety 15, safetensors only, but the only documented loading path is the publisher's Python package in place of a runtime.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors in the main repository and the AWQ, GPTQ and int4 builds, GGUF in the GGUF build, with no .bin, .pt, .pth or .py files in the main r…)