# Ornith-1.5-122B vs Qwen3.5-4B (slim)

> Qwen3.5-4B and Ornith-1.5-122B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61.2 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Qwen3.5-4B and Ornith-1.5-122B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.2 (C) and 61 (C). Ornith-1.5-122B leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Ornith-1.5-122B: C 61, rank #81 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-122b.min.md
- Qwen3.5-4B: C 61.2, rank #38 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-5-4b.min.md
- Ornith-1.5-122B, good for Local coding and terminal agents on a 128 GB unified-memory machine or a 96 GB GPU setup, where a clear licence file and an answering publisher aren't required Ahead on Agent interface, 85 against 70.
- Qwen3.5-4B, good for Agents that want a cheap local helper for tool calls, short reasoning and reading images on a laptop or small GPU Ahead on Reach, 85 against 75; Risk, 55 against 50.

| Category | Ornith-1.5-122B | Qwen3.5-4B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 75 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 36 | 34 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ornith-1.5-122B | Qwen3.5-4B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ornith | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2026-03-02 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Ornith-1.5-122B +15: Ornith-1.5-122B 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); Qwen3.5-4B 70 (The template ships in the repository (20) and the model was trained for tool use with several calls per turn in the template (20).)
- Reach, Qwen3.5-4B +10: Ornith-1.5-122B 75 (Memory 10, since Ornith's own MLX 4-bit build is 69.7 GB and needs about 83.6 GB with the fifth added, over 64 GB and inside the reference machine's 107.4 GB, a…); Qwen3.5-4B 85 (Memory earns the full 30 because Ollama's own Q4_K_M build is 3.3 GB, about 4 GB with the fifth added, though Alibaba itself publishes no quantised 4B, so build…)
- Risk, Qwen3.5-4B +5: Ornith-1.5-122B 50 (File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only and no Python in any of Ornith's repositories for this size, so the card's --trust-remote-code flag loads nothing from…); Qwen3.5-4B 55 (Safetensors only with no remote code gives file safety its 25, and files in the Qwen organisation the publisher's GitHub links to, each with a hash on the Hub…)