Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B vs Mistral Large 4
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mistral Large 4's 54.6 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Mistral Large 4 leads on risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
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Which one, for what
Best for Agents that need to read screenshots, documents and video on a local machine with 24 to 32 GB for the model, under a permissive licence
Ahead on
- Reach, 90 against 50
Watch for
No limitations section, safety results, agent-use guidance or security contact
Best for Operators with an 8-GPU Blackwell or H200 node who want a frontier-sized open model for coding agents and defensive security, with a hosted twin on Mistral's API.
Ahead on
- Risk, 75 against 55
- Agent interface, 95 against 70
Watch for
The smallest 4-bit build needs about 732 GB, so nothing fits a single workstation or a 128 GB machine
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.
Reach MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +40
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 90
Memory 25, since OpenBMB's IQ4_XS GGUF with its vision projector is 19.6 GB and needs about 23.6 GB with the fifth added, which fits 24 GB, while its Q4_K_M GGUF, 4-bit safetensors builds and Ollama entry need 32 GB. Runtimes 25, from vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23, Transformers 5.18.0 and later, llama.cpp's own MiniCPM-V 4.7 support and OpenBMB's entry on Ollama. Builds 15, OpenBMB publishes FP8, three 4-bit safetensors builds and GGUF. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 with nothing added. Download 10, nothing is gated. Hosted 0, no inference provider is mapped. 25 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 90.
Mistral Large 4 50
Memory scores 0, since the smallest 4-bit build, Mistral's NVFP4, is 610 GB, about 732 GB with a fifth added, far above 256 GB. Runtimes score 10, released Transformers and llama.cpp have the architecture, while vLLM v0.33.0 and SGLang v0.5.23 still lack it, the llama.cpp build Ollama 0.40.14 pins predates it, and LM Studio has no entry. Builds score 15 for Mistral's FP8 and NVFP4 releases. Terms score 10, a modified MIT licence that is free commercially except for Model-as-a-Service businesses. Download scores 10 with no gate, and hosted too scores 5 because Mistral's API serves these weights. 0 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 50.
Agent interface Mistral Large 4 +25
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 70
Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, the card shows the tools array going in but not the call coming back, and names no parser. Trained tool calling 20, the template renders several calls in one turn. Structured output 0, not documented or claimed. Reasoning control 10, enable_thinking per request, off by default, with the trace between markers. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native.
Mistral Large 4 95
The chat template is in the repository (20). The card documents how tools are declared and come back and names the parser (25), and the template renders several calls in one turn (20). Strict JSON Schema output is documented with how to ask for it (15). Reasoning effort is budgeted per request with the reasoning returned apart from the answer (10). Context scores 5, because the 1M window comes from YaRN scaling and the technical report gives 40K as the longest pretraining sequence. 20 + 25 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 95.
Risk Mistral Large 4 +20
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 55
File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no Python in the main repository and no remote code needed. Provenance 15, the files come from the openbmb organisation OpenBMB's GitHub README links to, with a SHA-256 for every weight file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either, and the card has no limitations section. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no security.txt or SECURITY.md.
Mistral Large 4 75
File safety scores 25, safetensors only and loaded by Transformers' own code with a Jinja template. Provenance scores 15, Mistral's verified organisation with a hash on every file. Safety evaluation scores 10, refusal and prompt-injection results Mistral ran itself, listed in its 2 November technical report as internal, and red-teaming by outside firms with nothing published. Agent guidance scores 10 for a statement of what the refusals cover and a claim of trained injection resistance, with only general safeguards. Licence risk scores 10, 5 off for the Model-as-a-Service limit. The security programme scores 5 for security.txt with no public advisories. 25 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 75.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B | Mistral Large 4 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 90 | 50 | MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +40 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 55 | 75 | Mistral Large 4 +20 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 70 | 95 | Mistral Large 4 +25 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 68 | 64 | MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 61/100 | C 54.6/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B | Mistral Large 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | OpenBMB | Mistral AI |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License (modified MIT) |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-11-03 | 2026-10-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
Verdicts
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B
A vision-language cousin for images and video that fits a 24 to 32 GB machine from OpenBMB's own GGUF, under plain Apache 2.0, with a publisher that answers. The card says little about limits, training data or how tool calls come back, so test the tool format in your runtime before relying on it.
Mistral Large 4
A 1T-parameter mixture-of-experts model from Mistral for coding agents and defensive security, with strict JSON Schema output, parallel tool calls and three reasoning efforts. It needs a multi-GPU server, about 732 GB for the smallest 4-bit build, and no released vLLM or SGLang loads it. The licence bars Model-as-a-Service businesses without a separate deal.
Before you call either
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B
- Start it with
llama-server -hf openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf:Q4_K_M --jinja, orollama run openbmb/minicpm-v4.7:35b-a3b - For image input in llama.cpp add
mmproj-model-f16.gguf, or the 4x projector for more visual detail at a higher cost - The GGUF files at the repository root have thinking off. Use the files in
thinking/when you want the trace - With Transformers pass
enable_thinkingtoapply_chat_template, and passdownsample_modeto bothapply_chat_templateandgenerate - 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. The template uses the Qwen3.5 function-block format
- Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
Mistral Large 4
- Serve the NVFP4 build on Blackwell with
vllm/vllm-openai:mistral-large-4 --model mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B-NVFP4 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --kv-cache-dtype fp8_ds_mla --tool-call-parser mistral --reasoning-parser mistral --enable-auto-tool-choice; released vLLM doesn't load it - On H200 use the FP8 build with tensor parallelism of 16 or 8 by 2 pipelines, per vLLM's recipe
- Pass
reasoning_effortlow, medium or high (default high); any other value makes the template raise an error, and there is no off switch - Read the reasoning from
message.reasoning;max_completion_tokenscounts reasoning tokens too - Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 at every effort, per the card
- Ask for JSON with
response_formattype json_schema and strict true; the template passes the schema to the model - The template rejects a tool message straight after a user message and a conversation that doesn't start with a user or system message
- Add
--speculative-config '{"method": "dspark", "num_speculative_tokens": 3}'to use the embedded draft head - If you'll offer it to others as a hosted model, read the licence first; Model-as-a-Service use needs Mistral's commercial licence
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B or Mistral Large 4?
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Mistral Large 4's 54.6 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Mistral Large 4 leads on risk and agent interface.
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