# MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B vs Qwen3.5-4B (slim)

> Qwen3.5-4B and MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61.2 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- 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
- Qwen3.5-4B: C 61.2, rank #38 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-4b.min.md
- 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 85; Documentation and upkeep, 48 against 34.
- Qwen3.5-4B, good for Agents that want a cheap local helper for tool calls, short reasoning and reading images on a laptop or small GPU

| Category | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B | Qwen3.5-4B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 95 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 48 | 34 |

| Fact (where they differ) | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B | Qwen3.5-4B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | OpenBMB | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-03-02 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- 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 p…); Qwen3.5-4B 34 (The card covers five of the seven items and misses limitations and a cut-off (14).)
- 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.); 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 build…)
