MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B vs Qwen3.6-27B

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

No score change since it was listed.

Qwen3.6-27B

• -0.5 on 1 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.

Qwen3.6-27B

A capable dense cousin for agentic coding and tool calls with images and video in, running in every major runtime. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and three providers host it. The main risk is silence, with no safety results, no agent guidance, no answers in its repository and Qwen3.8-27B now ahead of it.

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

Qwen3.6-27B

1. Quickest start is ollama run qwen3.6:27b, about 18 GB of files with the vision projector
2. Alibaba's FP8 build with the card's parsers is vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder, vllm 0.19.0 or later
3. Use the qwen3_coder tool parser, the template writes calls as function and parameter blocks inside tool_call
4. Thinking is on by default, pass "chat_template_kwargs": {"enable_thinking": false} for short tasks, and /think and /nothink aren't supported
5. "preserve_thinking": true in chat_template_kwargs keeps earlier reasoning in context, which helps long agent sessions but grows the prompt
6. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 when thinking, and temperature 0.7, top_p 0.8, presence_penalty 1.5 without
7. Keep at least 128K of context if you rely on thinking, and turn on YaRN only beyond 262,144 tokens
8. Validate any JSON it returns or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented
9. Qwen3.8-27B (listed as qwen3-8-27b) is the newer model at this size on the same runtimes