# MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B vs SmolLM3-3B (slim)

> MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on risk, agent interface 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
- SmolLM3-3B: C 61, rank #55 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.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.
- SmolLM3-3B, good for Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device Ahead on Risk, 65 against 55; Agent interface, 80 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 74 against 48.

| Category | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B | SmolLM3-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 95 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 70 | 80 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 48 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B | SmolLM3-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | OpenBMB | Hugging Face |
| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2025-09-10 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, SmolLM3-3B +26: 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…); SmolLM3-3B 74 (Model card 14, it covers limitations, architecture, parameters, context and languages but has no intended-use section and leaves the June 2025 cut-off to the ch…)
- 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.); SmolLM3-3B 85 (Memory 30, the smallest 4-bit build Hugging Face publishes is its own ONNX q4f16 at 2.1 GB, about 2.5 GB with the fifth added, and the full BF16 files that the…)
- Risk, SmolLM3-3B +10: 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…); SmolLM3-3B 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs on load or to build prompts.)
- Agent interface, SmolLM3-3B +10: MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 70 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, 7,249 characters.); SmolLM3-3B 80 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)