# LBS-27B vs ZAYA1-8B (slim)

> ZAYA1-8B scores 61 (C) to LBS-27B's 55.8 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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ZAYA1-8B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against LBS-27B's 55.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. LBS-27B leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- LBS-27B: C 55.8, rank #118 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lbs-27b.min.md
- ZAYA1-8B: C 61, rank #85 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zaya1-8b.min.md
- LBS-27B, good 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 Agent interface, 70 against 60.
- ZAYA1-8B, good for People who want a small, fast reasoning model for maths and code and can live without tool calling Ahead on Reach, 80 against 60; Risk, 55 against 50; Documentation and upkeep, 50 against 43.

| Category | LBS-27B | ZAYA1-8B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 60 | 80 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 60 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 43 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | LBS-27B | ZAYA1-8B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | inclusionAI (Ant Group) | Zyphra |
| Licence | Apache-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) | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-26 | 2026-07-02 |

Why the edge:
- Reach, ZAYA1-8B +20: LBS-27B 60 (Memory earns 10, since the only build is 54.73 GB of BF16, about 66 GB with a fifth added, which fits the reference machine but not 64 GB.); ZAYA1-8B 80 (Memory 30, the smallest build from Zyphra is the MXFP4-Experts repository, 5.85 GB, and 5.85 GB × 1.2 = 7.0 GB, within 16 GB.)
- Agent interface, LBS-27B +10: LBS-27B 70 (The chat template earns 20, Qwen's Jinja file in the repository.); ZAYA1-8B 60 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (10,700 characters).)
- Documentation and upkeep, ZAYA1-8B +7: LBS-27B 43 (The model card earns 8, with intended use, one limitation and parameters, and no architecture, context, languages or cut-off.); ZAYA1-8B 50 (Model card 5, Intended use and the parameter counts are on the card.)
- Risk, ZAYA1-8B +5: LBS-27B 50 (File safety earns 15, safetensors only but with the documented route running the publisher's scripts to serve it and to write its system prompt.); ZAYA1-8B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)