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

occamy-1.0 vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507

occamy-1.0 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507's 55.7 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 leads on reach and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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Which one, for what

occamy-1.0 C

Best for Agents that want an Apache 2.0 mixture-of-experts model tuned for long tool-using tasks on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac.

Ahead on

  • Documentation and upkeep, 74 against 26

Watch for

No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact

Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 C

Best for Agents that want a capable small instruct model on a laptop, phone-class device or spare GPU, with a plain licence and long context.

Ahead on

  • Reach, 95 against 85
  • Agent interface, 75 against 70

Watch for

No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runoccamy-1.0Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507Edge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%258595Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 +10
Risk20%205555even
Agent interface10%107075Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 +5
Documentation and upkeep10%107426occamy-1.0 +48
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100C 55.7/100

Facts side by side

Factoccamy-1.0Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorAccio (Accio-Lab)Alibaba (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 release2026-10-022025-09-17
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 reviews3/5 (4)3/5 (4)

Verdicts

occamy-1.0

A Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fine-tuned for long agent work with tools, files and code, under plain Apache 2.0, and Accio's 4-bit builds run in about 23 GB. The main gaps are no safety results, agent guidance or security contact, and every benchmark figure is Accio's own.

Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507

A small, fast cousin for instruction following, short tool-calling jobs and long documents on modest hardware, with no thinking step. It runs in about 3 GB at 4 bits on every common runtime, and two providers host it. The main risk is neglect, with no file changes in over a year, no answers from Alibaba and no safety results.

Before you call either

occamy-1.0

  1. Serve with --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder on vLLM 0.19.0 or SGLang 0.5.10 and later
  2. BF16 is 70.2 GB, so on a 128 GB machine run it without the card's 8-way tensor parallelism
  3. Keep the whole assistant message, reasoning and tool calls included, in later turns, as the card says
  4. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20 and presence_penalty 1.5
  5. With the GGUFs, NFC-normalise input text and read TOKENIZER.md, since the files store qwen2 pre-tokenizer metadata
  6. The base's MTP layer isn't in this checkpoint, Accio-Lab/occamy-1.0-MTP is an experimental separate head

Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507

  1. Quickest start is ollama run qwen3:4b-instruct, 2.5 GB. Plain qwen3:4b is the Thinking-2507 edition, not this one
  2. On our reference machine use BF16 with vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 --max-model-len 262144 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes
  3. Use the hermes parser in vLLM or qwen25 in SGLang, the template emits JSON inside tool_call tags
  4. Don't pass enable_thinking, this edition never thinks and the card says the flag isn't needed
  5. Sampling per the card is temperature 0.7, top_p 0.8, top_k 20 and min_p 0, with presence_penalty up to 2 against repetition
  6. Drop the context to 32,768 tokens if memory runs out, as the card suggests
  7. Validate JSON yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, occamy-1.0 or Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507?

occamy-1.0 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507's 55.7 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 leads on reach and agent interface.

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