# Ornith-1.5-122B vs SmolLM3-3B (slim)

> Ornith-1.5-122B and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Ornith-1.5-122B and SmolLM3-3B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). SmolLM3-3B leads on reach, risk and documentation and upkeep. 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
- SmolLM3-3B: C 61, rank #55 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.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 80.
- SmolLM3-3B, good for Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device Ahead on Reach, 85 against 75; Risk, 65 against 50; Documentation and upkeep, 74 against 36.

| Category | Ornith-1.5-122B | SmolLM3-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 75 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 50 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 80 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 36 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ornith-1.5-122B | SmolLM3-3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ornith | Hugging Face |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2025-09-10 |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, SmolLM3-3B +38: Ornith-1.5-122B 36 (Model card 11, it covers intended use, architecture, parameters and context but not limitations, languages or a knowledge cut-off.); SmolLM3-3B 74 (Model card 14, it covers limitations, architecture, parameters, context and languages but has no intended-use section and leaves the June 2025 cut-off to the ch…)
- Risk, SmolLM3-3B +15: 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…); SmolLM3-3B 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs on load or to build prompts.)
- Reach, SmolLM3-3B +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…); SmolLM3-3B 85 (Memory 30, the smallest 4-bit build Hugging Face publishes is its own ONNX q4f16 at 2.1 GB, about 2.5 GB with the fifth added, and the full BF16 files that the…)
- Agent interface, Ornith-1.5-122B +5: Ornith-1.5-122B 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); SmolLM3-3B 80 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)