{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B", "vendor": "NVIDIA", "vendorUrl": "https://developer.nvidia.com/nemotron", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA's open-weight hybrid Mamba-2 and mixture-of-experts reasoning model for agents, 30B parameters with 3B active and up to 1M tokens of context, published on Hugging Face in BF16 and NVFP4 under OpenMDW-1.1.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "license": "OpenMDW-1.1", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "nemotron-3.5-lightning" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The BF16 and NVFP4 repositories are not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under OpenMDW-1.1. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 65.9 GB for the BF16 repository (one H100 80GB at 256K tokens per the card), 21.6 GB for NVIDIA's NVFP4 build or 19 GB for Ollama's smallest 4-bit build (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "mamba", "hybrid", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "long-context", "safetensors", "nvfp4", "self-hosted", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 34, "interface": 90, "reach": 85, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.", "bestFor": "Agents on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a fast tool-calling reasoning model with long context and a permissive licence", "strengths": [ "Released support in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Transformers, Ollama and LM Studio", "4-bit builds of 19 GB from ggml-org and Ollama, and NVIDIA's own NVFP4 at 21.6 GB", "Safetensors only, with no repository code run to load it or parse its output", "Tool calls documented with a named parser, several per turn, and thinking off per request", "Training data listed with token counts and cut-offs, much of it published", "OpenMDW-1.1 with no gate, no threshold and no use policy, and NVIDIA's own API serves it" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety evaluation results published", "One NVIDIA reply across 12 questions on its two repositories", "Only one quantised build from NVIDIA, and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs", "Structured output claimed but not documented, and no reasoning budget", "The card's llama.cpp recipe names a Q4_K_M file that ggml-org's repository doesn't hold" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`, about 19 to 25 GB of files depending on the platform", "On the reference machine use `llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja`, since the card's Q4_K_M tag doesn't exist there and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs", "With vLLM serve it with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder` (SGLang uses `--reasoning-parser nemotron_3`)", "Use `temperature=1.0` and `top_p=0.95`, as the card says", "Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks", "For coding agents pass `force_nonempty_content: true` in `chat_template_kwargs`, which vLLM's nemotron_v3 parser reads so a cut-off reasoning trace still returns content", "Go past 262,144 tokens only with the card's flags (`VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1`, `--max-model-len 1048576`) and enough memory" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 34, "interface": 90, "reach": 85, "risk": 75, "upkeep": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 73, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning\n# or, with llama.cpp and the GGUF the card links:\nllama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 -c 131072\n# or, with vLLM on NVIDIA GPUs (the card's command, abridged):\nvllm serve nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 --reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"What is the capital of Japan?\"}],\n \"temperature\": 1.0, \"top_p\": 0.95,\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": false}\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b" }, "sameCompany": [ "nemotron-3-5-super-vl", "nvidia-nemo-retriever", "nemo-guardrails", "nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b", "parakeet-tdt-0-6b-v3", "cosmos-reason2-2b", "nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b", "nemotron-3-nano-4b", "nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning", "nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b", "nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "NVIDIA", "params": "30B", "active": "3B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Small hybrid Mamba and mixture-of-experts reasoning model for always-on agents, text only, with tool calling, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "ggml-org NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF (Q4_0)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF", "who": "llama.cpp", "precision": "q4_0", "sizeGB": 18.9, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From ggml-org, the llama.cpp project's organisation, which NVIDIA's card calls the official GGUF weights. Also Q8_0 (33.59 GB) and BF16 (63.18 GB), and separate MTP files of 1.16 to 4.09 GB" }, { "name": "ollama nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-nvfp4", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-nvfp4", "who": "ollama", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 19, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama (MLX)" ], "note": "MLX build for Apple silicon, the smallest in Ollama's library. Size as Ollama's tags page shows it, rounded to whole GB above 10 GB" }, { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 21.58, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "NVFP4 experts with FP8 Mamba projections. Native on Blackwell, W4A16 kernels on Hopper and Ampere, per its card. Needs NVIDIA GPUs" }, { "name": "ollama nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q4_K_M", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q4_K_M", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 25, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "The llama.cpp build Ollama uses on Linux. Size as Ollama's tags page shows it" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF", "who": "lm-studio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 24.52, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio" ], "note": "The build LM Studio's catalogue page links. Also Q6_K (33.51 GB) and Q8_0 (33.59 GB)" }, { "name": "NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 65.85, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 -c 131072", "runBuild": "ggml-org NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF (Q4_0)", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "NVIDIA (Nemotron)", "family": "Nemotron 3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#nvidia", "others": [ { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active (31.6B per the safetensors index)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-Base-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-Base-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano 4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16", "params": "4B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-4b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B-A3B Reasoning", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-BF16", "params": "550B total, 55B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-Base-BF16", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B-A55B GenRM", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-GenRM", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-Base-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-super-vl" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B-A12B Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Super-VL-120B-A12B-Base-BF16", "params": "120B total, 12B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-BF16", "params": "74B total, 9B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron Labs 3 Elastic 30B-A3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Elastic-30B-A3B-BF16", "params": "30B total, 3B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron Labs 3 Puzzle 75B-A9B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B-BF16", "params": "75B total, 9B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Labs Ultra Math SFT", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Labs-Ultra-Math-SFT", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron 3 Labs Ultra Math RL", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Labs-Ultra-Math-RL", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "Nemotron Labs 3 Competitive Coding 550B-A55B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Labs-3-Competitive-Coding-550B-A55B-NVFP4", "params": "550B total, 55B active" }, { "name": "nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b", "params": "0.6B (638M per the safetensors count)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b" } ], "olderCount": 43, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "NVIDIA Corporation", "domain": "nvidia.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-04-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/commits/main", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The card names NVIDIA Corporation as model developer and the LICENSE file reads Copyright 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION \u0026 AFFILIATES. The Hugging Face organisation nvidia is the one developer.nvidia.com links to. Domain date as recorded for the other Nemotron listings.", "Nothing is hosted in this listing, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history. Since release on 11 August 2026 only the cards have changed, most commits reading Update README.md.", "www.nvidia.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 403 to our reader on 21 October 2026 for the first batch, so it stays unknown. The card links NVIDIA's vulnerability submission page." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json" }, "answer": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)'s 61 (C), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "name": "ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "vendor": "BottleCap AI", "vendorUrl": "https://bottlecapai.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B is BottleCap AI's fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B that shortens its reasoning traces, a 27B dense vision-language model on Hugging Face under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0, with a gated main repository.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "license": "PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF-RCO-4.2bpw" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The BF16 and FP8 repositories are gated (gated auto). A Hugging Face account must accept the card's conditions and give a name, a company and an email before the files open, with automatic approval. The GGUF, NVFP4, NVFP4A4-AWQ, MLX and RCO GGUF repositories were not gated on 21 October 2026, though their cards carry the same request form in their metadata (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free for personal non-commercial use and for companies with fewer than 100 people and under 1,000,000 USD (2019, inflation-adjusted) revenue, under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0 plus BottleCap's personal-use grant. Larger organisations need a separate commercial licence from BottleCap AI. Running it costs the hardware, 55.6 GB for BF16 and 15.5 GB for the smallest 4-bit GGUF (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "derivative", "gated", "source-available", "safetensors", "gguf", "fp8", "nvfp4", "mlx", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 43, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 70, "reach": 75, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description.", "bestFor": "Small teams and individuals running Qwen3.8-27B for agent or reasoning work who want shorter thinking traces on one 24 GB GPU or Mac.", "strengths": [ "Same architecture and template as Qwen3.8-27B, so released vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and llama.cpp run it", "BottleCap publishes FP8, NVFP4, MLX and GGUF builds, the IQ4_XS needing about 19 GB", "Per-request reasoning effort, several tool calls a turn and 262,144 tokens of context", "The card documents its own evaluation method with seeds, intervals and paired quantisation checks", "Safetensors only, in a verified organisation" ], "weaknesses": [ "PolyForm Small Business licence, free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue", "The BF16 and FP8 repositories are gated behind contact details", "No safety results, agent guidance, security contact or training-data description", "No hosted API or inference provider", "Every accuracy and token-saving figure comes from BottleCap's own harness" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check the licence first, an organisation with 100 or more people or 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue needs a commercial licence from BottleCap", "For files without the gate use `llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 17.4 GB", "On vLLM use `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml`, and on SGLang `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`", "Set `reasoning_effort` (xhigh, medium or low) in chat_template_kwargs, any other value makes the template raise an error", "Keep the base's sampling (temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the GGUF card says greedy decoding can loop", "The GGUFs carry an MTP head, and llama.cpp builds without MTP support for this architecture may refuse to load them with a missing blk.64 tensor" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 70, "reach": 75, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 47, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja\n# or the gated BF16 weights, after accepting the card's conditions:\nvllm serve bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml", "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "BottleCap AI", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (Apache 2.0), declared in the card's metadata (base_model, base_model_relation finetune) and in NOTICE as the base checkpoint. 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Image input needs the 0.93 GB mmproj file from the same repository" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 17.4, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-RCO-4.2bpw", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF-RCO-4.2bpw", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mixed-4.2bpw", "sizeGB": 14.3, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ], "note": "Not gated. Mixed precision averaging 4.19 bits per weight, with the feed-forward weights at 3.8 to 3.9 bits, so it doesn't count as a 4-bit build for the memory line" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 20.6, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Not gated. Weight-only NVFP4 for vLLM on Hopper (Marlin) and Blackwell" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 23.4, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Not gated. NVFP4 weights and activations, Blackwell only" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mlx-4bit", "sizeGB": 22.8, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "mlx-vlm" ], "note": "Not gated. Mixed 4 and 8-bit DWQ with the vision tower and MTP head (22.0 GB without the MTP files). The card says to use mlx-vlm or oMLX" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q6_K", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q6_K.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q6_k", "sizeGB": 23.9, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 31.2, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Gated like the main repository. Block-wise FP8 for vLLM on Hopper and Blackwell, per the card" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 29, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 55.6, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)", "Transformers" ], "note": "Gated (auto approval after accepting the card's conditions)" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-f16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-f16.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "f16", "sizeGB": 54.7, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "runBuild": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "BottleCap AI (bottlecapai)", "family": "ThinkingCap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#bottlecap", "others": [ { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B", "params": "27B (27,356,728,560 by the Hub's safetensors count)" } ], "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "BottleCap AI (named in the licence's copyright line)", "domain": "bottlecapai.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://bottlecapai.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The Hugging Face organisation bottlecapai is verified (team plan, 15 members). 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A trust centre at trust.mycroft.io/bottlecap-ai lists SOC 2 and policies behind a request form, with no route for reporting a flaw in the model.", "unchecked: the domain's registration date, and the main repository's commit history, which is behind the gate." ], "score": 47 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "NVIDIA", "b": "BottleCap AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "OpenMDW-1.1", "b": "PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-11", "b": "2026-10-06", 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ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 85, "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 75, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 75, "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 45, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 90, "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 70, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b", "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": 70, "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 53, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)'s 61 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b": "A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.", "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": "A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)'s 61 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B: grade B, 64.2/100, rank #21 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.json\n- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B): grade C, 61/100, rank #50 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a fast tool-calling reasoning model with long context and a permissive licence\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 85 against 75\n- Risk, 75 against 45\n- Agent interface, 90 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 70 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety evaluation results published\n\n### ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (C)\n\nGood for: Small teams and individuals running Qwen3.8-27B for agent or reasoning work who want shorter thinking traces on one 24 GB GPU or Mac.\n\nWatch for: PolyForm Small Business licence, free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 85 | 75 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +10 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 75 | 45 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +30 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 90 | 70 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +20 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 70 | 53 | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.2 · B** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | NVIDIA | BottleCap AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | OpenMDW-1.1 | PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-11 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B.** A small agent cousin, 3B active parameters, with trained parallel tool calls, a thinking switch and up to 1M tokens of context, under a permissive licence. It runs in about 23 GB from the GGUF or Ollama builds, and NVIDIA's NVFP4 build needs NVIDIA GPUs. The main risks are no published safety results and one answered question across two repositories.\n\n**ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B).** A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning`, about 19 to 25 GB of files depending on the platform\n2. On the reference machine use `llama-server -hf ggml-org/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_0 --jinja`, since the card's Q4_K_M tag doesn't exist there and NVFP4 needs NVIDIA GPUs\n3. With vLLM serve it with `--reasoning-parser nemotron_v3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder` (SGLang uses `--reasoning-parser nemotron_3`)\n4. Use `temperature=1.0` and `top_p=0.95`, as the card says\n5. Thinking is on by default. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks\n6. For coding agents pass `force_nonempty_content: true` in `chat_template_kwargs`, which vLLM's nemotron_v3 parser reads so a cut-off reasoning trace still returns content\n7. Go past 262,144 tokens only with the card's flags (`VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1`, `--max-model-len 1048576`) and enough memory\n\n### ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)\n\n1. Check the licence first, an organisation with 100 or more people or 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue needs a commercial licence from BottleCap\n2. For files without the gate use `llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 17.4 GB\n3. On vLLM use `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml`, and on SGLang `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n4. Set `reasoning_effort` (xhigh, medium or low) in chat_template_kwargs, any other value makes the template raise an error\n5. Keep the base's sampling (temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the GGUF card says greedy decoding can loop\n6. The GGUFs carry an MTP head, and llama.cpp builds without MTP support for this architecture may refuse to load them with a missing blk.64 tensor\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B or ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)?\n\nNemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B scores 64.2 (B) on agent readiness against ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)'s 61 (C), and leads in every scored category.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b\", \"b\": \"thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b\"}`. 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