Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B vs Qwen3.5-4B
Qwen3.5-4B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.2 (C) and 61 (C). MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
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Which one, for what
Best 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 85
- Documentation and upkeep, 48 against 34
Watch for
No limitations section, safety results, agent-use guidance or security contact
Best for Agents that want a cheap local helper for tool calls, short reasoning and reading images on a laptop or small GPU
No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.
Watch for
No quantised build from Alibaba for this size
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Documentation and upkeep MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +14
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 parameters (1B) are there. Training data 0, no description of the training data on the card. Last change 20, the last commit, on 30 October 2026, updated the card and removed an unused asset folder, eleven days before this check. Responsiveness 0, the repository has no discussions that aren't pull requests (two pull requests in all), so nobody has asked anything yet and the line reads as none answered, as settled in calibration. Version policy 10, MiniCPM-V 4.5 and 4.6 stay in their own repositories and the GitHub README dates each release. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the thinking switch, and no report waits without a reply, since there are no discussions. 8 + 0 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 48.
Qwen3.5-4B 34
The card covers five of the seven items and misses limitations and a cut-off (14). Training data is a general description without a cut-off (5). The files last changed on 2 March 2026, 245 days before 2 November, which is within a year (5). No Qwen member has answered any of the 21 discussions that aren't pull requests, four of them opened since 21 October (0), and the GitHub issues couldn't be counted. Earlier 4B models stay in their own repositories without dated notes (5), and two pull requests fixing the template and adding generation_config.json wait unanswered (5). 14 + 5 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 34.
Reach MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +10
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. Runtimes 25, MiniCPMV4_7ForConditionalGeneration in vLLM's registry at v0.33.0, the minicpmv4_7 model type in SGLang's minicpmv.py at v0.5.23, the minicpmv4_7 model in Transformers at v5.22.2, a MiniCPM-V 4.7 guide and conversion code in llama.cpp at b12242, and an openbmb/minicpm-v4.7:1b tag in OpenBMB's namespace on Ollama, read as the 35B-A3B listing's is. Builds 15, OpenBMB publishes AWQ, GPTQ and int4 safetensors builds and a GGUF repository from IQ3_XS to F16, so quantised builds at two precisions or more. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 in the card's metadata and as the LICENSE of OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V repository, an OSI licence. Download 10, gated is false on the main repository and on the GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ and int4 repositories, so the files download with no account or terms. Hosted 0, Hugging Face lists no inference provider for the model (an empty provider mapping on 10 November 2026), and no provider's own list was read. 30 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 95.
Qwen3.5-4B 85
Memory earns the full 30 because Ollama's own Q4_K_M build is 3.3 GB, about 4 GB with the fifth added, though Alibaba itself publishes no quantised 4B, so builds scores 0. Runtimes reach the 25 cap on vLLM's stable release, Transformers 5.2.0, llama.cpp, Ollama's library and LM Studio's catalogue. Apache 2.0 with nothing added gives the full 15 for terms, the ungated repository the full 10 for download, and two providers (featherless-ai, live on Hugging Face on 2 November, and Doubleword's own list per the 21 October check) the 5 for hosted too. 30 + 25 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 85.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B | Qwen3.5-4B | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 95 | 85 | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +10 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 55 | 55 | even |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 70 | 70 | even |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 48 | 34 | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 61/100 | C 61.2/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B | Qwen3.5-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | OpenBMB | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-03-02 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |
Verdicts
MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B
A vision-language cousin small enough for a phone, under plain Apache 2.0, that every runtime we count can load. The projector is bigger than the language model, so plan for about 2 GB. The card says nothing about limits or training data and doesn't show how a tool call comes back.
Qwen3.5-4B
A small vision-language cousin for tool calls, light agent steps and image or video reading on almost any machine, with switchable thinking. Ollama's 3.3 GB build or the 9.3 GB BF16 files run in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0. The main risks are no safety results, no structured-output guarantee and no answers from Alibaba since March.
Before you call either
MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B
- Start it with
llama-server -hf openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf:Q4_K_M --jinja, orollama run openbmb/minicpm-v4.7:1b - For image input in llama.cpp add
mmproj-model-f16.gguf, or the smaller 4x projector - The GGUF files at the repository root have thinking off. Use the files in
thinking/when you want the trace - Use temperature 0.7, top_p 0.95 and top_k 100 in instruct mode, as the card recommends
- Check tool calls in your runtime first, since the card names no parser
- Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
Qwen3.5-4B
- Smallest start is
ollama run qwen3.5:4b(Q4_K_M, about 4 GB with context) - Full precision
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B --port 8000 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder - Turn thinking off with
"chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": false}in the request body, since it's on by default and/thinkand/nothinkaren't supported - There's no generation_config.json, so pass the card's sampling yourself, for example
temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20, presence_penalty=1.5without thinking - Keep the context at 128K or more if you rely on thinking, and turn on YaRN only past 262,144 tokens
- Validate any JSON it returns, since structured output isn't documented
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B or Qwen3.5-4B?
Qwen3.5-4B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.2 (C) and 61 (C). MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.
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