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Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB · Open-weight model C61/100#77 of 160 open-weight models Qwen3-VL-32B-InstructAlibaba (Qwen team) · Open-weight model C56.4/100#115 of 160 open-weight models

Which one, for what

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B C

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 85
  • Agent interface, 70 against 60
  • Documentation and upkeep, 68 against 31

Watch for

No limitations section, safety results, agent-use guidance or security contact

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct C

Best for An agent with a 32 GB GPU or more that wants the largest dense Qwen3-VL model for images, documents and video

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No safety evaluation, agent-use guidance or security contact

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.

Documentation and upkeep MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +37

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 68

Model card 8, it covers intended use, architecture and parameters but not limitations, context length, languages or a knowledge cut-off. Training data 0, none described. Last change 20, a commit on 3 November 2026. Responsiveness 20, OpenBMB answered 8 of 12 discussions. Version policy 10, earlier versions keep their repositories and the changes are dated and described. File health 10, the files agree. 8 + 0 + 20 + 20 + 10 + 10 = 68.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct 31

The card misses limitations, languages and a cut-off (11). Training data is described only in the technical report, with no cut-off (5). The last change to code that runs it was the qwen-vl-utils fix of 4 January 2026, and the weights haven't changed since November 2025; the Hub commits for all three repositories and the QwenLM/Qwen3-VL head (30 January 2026) were the same on 4 November (5). Jie Huang, a Qwen organisation member, a named author of the Qwen3-VL Technical Report and the author of nine commits in QwenLM/Qwen3-VL, answered two of the 11 Hugging Face discussions that aren't pull requests, both on 27 October 2025; no publisher reply since, and GitHub issues weren't counted (5). The FP8 build's files were replaced in place the day after release with no note, after it had shipped the Thinking edition's files for three days (0). The GGUF card's example names a file the repository doesn't hold (5). 11+5+5+5+0+5 = 31.

Agent interface MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +10

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.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct 60

A Jinja chat template in the repository (20). The tool-call format lives only in the template, Hermes-style JSON in tool_call tags, and Alibaba names no parser (10). Trained for function calling with several calls allowed in a turn, per the family's technical report (20). No documented structured output (0). No thinking mode in this edition, so reasoning control scores 0 by the rule. 262,144 tokens of native context (10). 20+10+20+0+0+10 = 60.

Reach MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +5

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.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct 85

Alibaba's own Q4_K_M GGUF is 19.76 GB and 20.53 GB with the vision file it needs for images, so with a fifth added it needs about 25 GB and the 32 GB band (20). Transformers 4.57.0, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp and Ollama all run it in released versions, which reaches the 25 cap. Alibaba publishes FP8 and GGUF builds at F16, Q8_0 and Q4_K_M (15). Apache 2.0 with nothing added (15). No gate and no account (10). On 4 November the Hub's provider mapping lists only Featherless, live, and OpenRouter listed it with no endpoints per the 21 October check, so it isn't hosted too (0). 20+25+15+15+10+0 = 85.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BQwen3-VL-32B-InstructEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%259085MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +5
Risk20%205555even
Agent interface10%107060MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +10
Documentation and upkeep10%106831MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +37
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100C 56.4/100

Facts side by side

FactMiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BQwen3-VL-32B-Instruct
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorOpenBMBAlibaba (Qwen team)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-11-032025-11-01
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (4)

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.

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct is the largest dense Qwen3-VL model, for screenshots, documents, charts and video. Alibaba's Q4_K_M GGUF with its vision file needs about 25 GB, and Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp and Ollama run it under plain Apache 2.0. It has no thinking mode or published safety work, and only one provider was found serving it.

Before you call either

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-VL-32B-Instruct

  1. Start it with llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 32768, or ollama run qwen3-vl:32b-instruct
  2. In Ollama the plain qwen3-vl:32b tag is the Thinking edition, so name 32b-instruct
  3. With the GGUF, load the mmproj vision file too, or images won't be read
  4. Parse tool calls as JSON inside <tool_call> tags, or use SGLang's --tool-call-parser qwen
  5. Use the card's sampling, temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20, presence_penalty=1.5 for vision and temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, top_k=40, presence_penalty=2.0 for text
  6. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
  7. vLLM needs 0.11.0 or later and Transformers 4.57.0 or later
  8. If you pulled the FP8 build before 22 October 2025, pull it again, since the earlier files were the Thinking edition's

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B or Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct?

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct's 56.4 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.

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