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

occamy-1.0 vs SmolLM3-3B

occamy-1.0 and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on risk 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 54

Watch for

No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact

SmolLM3-3B C

Best for Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device

Ahead on

  • Risk, 65 against 55
  • Agent interface, 80 against 70

Watch for

65,536 tokens trained; 131,072 needs a YaRN edit to config.json

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runoccamy-1.0SmolLM3-3BEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%258585even
Risk20%205565SmolLM3-3B +10
Agent interface10%107080SmolLM3-3B +10
Documentation and upkeep10%107454occamy-1.0 +20
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100C 61/100

Facts side by side

Factoccamy-1.0SmolLM3-3B
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorAccio (Accio-Lab)Hugging Face
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-022025-09-10
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)3.3/5 (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.

SmolLM3-3B

A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025.

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

SmolLM3-3B

  1. Start it with vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes, or tool calls come back as text
  2. Pass chat_template_kwargs with enable_thinking false for short tasks, since thinking is on by default; a /think or /no_think flag in the system prompt overrides the kwarg
  3. Put earlier tool calls in the assistant message content, since the template ignores a tool_calls field when it renders history
  4. Add the YaRN rope_scaling block (factor 2.0, original 65536) to config.json before sending more than 65,536 tokens
  5. Use temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95, the card's recommended sampling
  6. Needs Transformers v4.53.0 or later; for llama.cpp use a GGUF from ggml-org or another converter, since Hugging Face publishes none
  7. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, occamy-1.0 or SmolLM3-3B?

occamy-1.0 and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on risk and agent interface.

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