MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

No score change since it was listed.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

• -0.5 on 2 November 2026: time

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.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

A strong mid-size cousin for coding, agent steps and reading images or video, with thinking you can switch off per request. Alibaba's 4-bit build needs about 95 GB, which fits one 128 GB unified-memory machine, and several providers host it. The main risk is silence, with no safety results, agent guidance or answers from Alibaba.

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

1. Start it with llama-server -hf openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf:Q4_K_M --jinja, or ollama run openbmb/minicpm-v4.7:35b-a3b
2. For image input in llama.cpp add mmproj-model-f16.gguf, or the 4x projector for more visual detail at a higher cost
3. The GGUF files at the repository root have thinking off. Use the files in thinking/ when you want the trace
4. With Transformers pass enable_thinking to apply_chat_template, and pass downsample_mode to both apply_chat_template and generate
5. Use temperature 0.7, top_p 0.95 and top_k 100 in instruct mode, as the card recommends
6. Check tool calls in your runtime first, since the card names no parser. The template uses the Qwen3.5 function-block format
7. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

1. Quickest start on a 128 GB machine is ollama run qwen3.5:122b (Q4_K_M, 81 GB of files, about 97 GB with context)
2. Alibaba's 4-bit build serves with vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-GPTQ-Int4 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --quantization moe_wna16, though that kernel isn't documented for AMD gfx1151
3. Use the qwen3_coder tool parser and the qwen3 reasoning parser, as the card's commands do
4. Turn thinking off with "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": false} in the request body, since it's on by default and /think and /nothink aren't supported
5. Sampling per the card is temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95 and top_k 20 when thinking, and temperature 0.7, top_p 0.8, top_k 20 and presence_penalty 1.5 without
6. Keep the context at 128K or more if you rely on thinking, and turn on YaRN only past 262,144 tokens
7. Add --language-model-only in vLLM to skip the vision encoder and free memory for the KV cache when you only need text
8. Validate any JSON it returns, since structured output isn't documented