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

LBS-27B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)

ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against LBS-27B's 53.9 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. LBS-27B leads on risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

LBS-27B D

Best for Agents with about 96 GB of GPU memory that need to find click targets on dense professional screenshots, or read fine detail in large images, and can run a small crop loop and wait for independent results.

Ahead on

  • Risk, 50 against 45

Watch for

No independent benchmark result yet; ScreenSpot-Pro, OS-World-G, PerceptionBench and HR-Bench numbers are inclusionAI's own runs

ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) C

Best for Small teams and individuals running Qwen3.8-27B for agent or reasoning work who want shorter thinking traces on one 24 GB GPU or Mac.

Ahead on

  • Reach, 75 against 55
  • Documentation and upkeep, 53 against 43

Watch for

PolyForm Small Business licence, free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLBS-27BThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%255575ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) +20
Risk20%205045LBS-27B +5
Agent interface10%107070even
Documentation and upkeep10%104353ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) +10
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 53.9/100C 61/100

Facts side by side

FactLBS-27BThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorinclusionAI (Ant Group)BottleCap AI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 (the card's metadata and licence section; the LICENSE file sits in the GitHub repository inclusionAI/UI-Venus on its LBS branch, not in the Hugging Face repository)PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-262026-10-06
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno 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 reviewsnone2.5/5 (4)

Verdicts

LBS-27B

A 27B Qwen3.8 fine-tune for GUI grounding that zooms into screenshots over a few turns before naming a point, and inclusionAI says it also helps with fine detail in large images. It needs about 96 GB at BF16 and a client that runs its crop actions. Every result so far is inclusionAI's own, with no safety results or injection guidance.

ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)

A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description.

Before you call either

LBS-27B

  1. Serve with vllm serve inclusionAI/LBS-27B --tensor-parallel-size 4 --max-model-len 65536, which is what the card's wrapper script runs; keep the context at 32,768 or more for multi-turn images
  2. Build the system prompt with build_system_prompt from the LBS branch's zoomin_grounding_protocol.py, send the screenshot after image_path: <name>, and don't pass tools; the model answers in plain text
  3. Parse <action>crop_image(image_path=..., x1=..., y1=..., x2=..., y2=...)</action>, cut the crop yourself and return it with its mapping to the original image; allow at most two crops per turn and three per episode
  4. Read the final answer as [x.xx,y.yy] on a 0 to 1000 scale of the original image, and use your own executor to click
  5. Pass reasoning_effort as xhigh, medium or low only, since the template raises an error for high, and don't count on thinking_budget, which the template ignores
  6. Don't turn on MTP speculative decoding; the MTP weights aren't in the repository though config.json names one MTP layer

ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)

  1. Check the licence first, an organisation with 100 or more people or 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue needs a commercial licence from BottleCap
  2. For files without the gate use llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja, about 17.4 GB
  3. On vLLM use --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml, and on SGLang --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder
  4. Set reasoning_effort (xhigh, medium or low) in chat_template_kwargs, any other value makes the template raise an error
  5. Keep the base's sampling (temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the GGUF card says greedy decoding can loop
  6. The GGUFs carry an MTP head, and llama.cpp builds without MTP support for this architecture may refuse to load them with a missing blk.64 tensor

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, LBS-27B or ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)?

ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against LBS-27B's 53.9 (D), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. LBS-27B leads on risk.

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