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

Nanbeige4.3-33B vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Nanbeige4.3-33B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct's 52.6 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents · All 3341 open weights comparisons

Which one, for what

Nanbeige4.3-33B C

Best for Agents with about 96 GB of GPU memory, or the 128 GB reference machine, that want an Apache-tagged 33B model for long coding and tool loops and can wait for independent results.

Ahead on

  • Risk, 60 against 55
  • Agent interface, 85 against 60
  • Documentation and upkeep, 56 against 31

Watch for

No independent benchmark result yet; every agentic number on the card is Nanbeige's own run

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct D

Best for An agent with 4 GB or more to spare that needs a local model to read images, documents and video

Ahead on

  • Reach, 95 against 55

Watch for

No safety evaluation, agent-use guidance or security contact

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runNanbeige4.3-33BQwen3-VL-4B-InstructEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%255595Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct +40
Risk20%206055Nanbeige4.3-33B +5
Agent interface10%108560Nanbeige4.3-33B +25
Documentation and upkeep10%105631Nanbeige4.3-33B +25
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100D 52.6/100

Facts side by side

FactNanbeige4.3-33BQwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorNanbeige LLM Lab (BOSS Zhipin)Alibaba (Qwen team)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0 (Hub metadata only; the repository has no LICENSE file)Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-242025-11-01
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviewsnone2.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Nanbeige4.3-33B

A dense 33B Llama-architecture cousin for long agentic coding and office tasks, with per-request thinking, XML tool calls that stock vLLM and SGLang parse, and 512K of context. It needs about 96 GB at BF16, as Nanbeige ships no quantised build. Its agentic results so far are Nanbeige's own, with no safety results, training data notes or licence file.

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

A small vision-language cousin for reading screenshots, documents, charts and video, running in about 3.5 GB from Alibaba's Q4_K_M GGUF in every major runtime under plain Apache 2.0. It has no thinking mode, and Qwen hasn't answered repository questions or published safety work, so add your own guardrails before letting it drive a GUI.

Before you call either

Nanbeige4.3-33B

  1. Serve with vllm serve Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B --enable-auto-tool-choice --reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder, as the card says, or SGLang with the same two parsers
  2. Keep tool_call_format at its default xml, since qwen3_coder parses that format; the json option writes Hermes-style JSON calls, which need a different parser such as vLLM's hermes
  3. Pass chat_template_kwargs {"preserve_thinking": true} for multi-turn tool use and coding, and {"enable_thinking": false} to skip reasoning, as the card recommends
  4. Use temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and up to 65,536 new tokens for agent work, and temperature 0.6 for reasoning and chat, per the card
  5. Send your own system prompt, since without one the template injects a Chinese identity line, or a Chinese tool-expert prompt when tools are passed
  6. Send one system message at the start only, as the template raises an error for a later one
  7. In plain Transformers pass use_cache=True to generate, since config.json and generation_config.json set it false; trust_remote_code isn't needed

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

  1. Start it with llama-server -hf Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 32768, or ollama run qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
  2. In Ollama the plain qwen3-vl:4b tag is the Thinking edition, so name 4b-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

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Nanbeige4.3-33B or Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct?

Nanbeige4.3-33B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct's 52.6 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct leads on reach.

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