Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct vs Ripple-65B Preview
Ripple-65B Preview scores 53.3 (D) on agent readiness against Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct's 41.8 (E), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
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Which one, for what
Best for Agents on a machine with about 96 GB to spare that need one local model to hear, see and answer by voice
Ahead on
- Reach, 55 against 45
Watch for
Only a 70.5 GB BF16 build, about 85 GB to run, with no quantised build from Alibaba
Best for Teams with Blackwell GPUs or a DGX Spark who want an Apache 2.0 coding model to try for terminal and agentic coding work, and can run the publisher's code to serve it.
Ahead on
- Agent interface, 75 against 60
- Documentation and upkeep, 49 against 26
Watch for
No released runtime runs the architecture, so running it means Ricursive's Python in SGLang 0.5.19 or Transformers' remote code
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Documentation and upkeep Ripple-65B Preview +23
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct 26
Model card 11, intended use, architecture, parameters and languages are there, limitations, context and a cut-off aren't. Training data 5, the report's description has no cut-off. Last change 0, nothing that runs the model has changed for over a year. Responsiveness 0, Qwen answered none of the 40 most recent discussions. Version policy 5, Qwen2.5-Omni kept without notes. File health 5, contradictory licence and language metadata and an unanswered report about long audio.
Ripple-65B Preview 49
Model card 14 of 20, no limitations and no knowledge cut-off. Training data 5, a general description with token counts and no cut-off. Last change 20, released today. Responsiveness 0, no discussions yet, read as none answered. Version policy 5, a first release, with the NVFP4 checkpoint replaced in place on release day under a commit note. File health 5, tokenizer_config.json carries a second, tool-less chat template and a 131,072-token limit against the card's 1M.
Agent interface Ripple-65B Preview +15
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct 60
Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, the cookbook shows how tools are declared and calls come back and the card covers audio, image and video input and speech output, but no parser is named. Trained tool calling 20, two calls in one turn from speech in the cookbook. Structured output 5, speech in a chosen voice and text-only output are documented, with no JSON. Reasoning control 0, no thinking in this edition. Context 5, 65,536 tokens in the config and trained at 32,768.
Ripple-65B Preview 75
Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository. Tool-calling format 25, Ricursive's server README says how tools are declared and calls come back, with the ripple parser in SGLang 0.5.19. Trained tool calling 20, one or more calls a turn and agentic-coding RL. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 0, the template has no thinking switch or effort levels. Context 10, long-context training at 2M-token sequences for a stated 1M.
Reach Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct +10
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct 55
Memory earns 10, because the only build is the 70.5 GB BF16 checkpoint, about 85 GB with a fifth added, which fits only the reference machine's band. Runtimes earn 20. Transformers runs the whole model, and released vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp run its Thinker with text out, while Ollama and LM Studio have nothing. Builds score 0, with no FP8, 4-bit or GGUF build from Alibaba. Apache 2.0 with nothing added gives terms the full 15 and the ungated repository gives download the full 10. Hosted too scores 0, since no provider serves this checkpoint and Alibaba's API serves a different Flash model.
Ripple-65B Preview 45
Memory 10 of 30, the smallest 4-bit build is Ricursive's NVFP4 at 57.2 GB, 68.7 GB with a fifth added, which is over 64 GB and fits our reference machine. Runtimes 0, no released runtime runs the ricursive architecture with its own code; Ricursive's SGLang plugin and Transformers' remote code don't count. Builds 10, one quantised precision (NVFP4) from Ricursive. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 with nothing added. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, Ricursive serves no API, Hugging Face maps no provider, Together AI's page says coming soon, and GMI Cloud's and OpenRouter's pages weren't read.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct | Ripple-65B Preview | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 55 | 45 | Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct +10 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 55 | 55 | even |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 60 | 75 | Ripple-65B Preview +15 |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 26 | 49 | Ripple-65B Preview +23 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | E 41.8/100 | D 53.3/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct | Ripple-65B Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Alibaba (Qwen team) | Ricursive Intelligence |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2025-09-22 | 2026-11-04 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | not read yet |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | none |
Verdicts
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct
An omni-modal cousin that listens, watches and reads, then answers in text or one of three voices, with tool calls from spoken requests, under plain Apache 2.0. Its only build, BF16, needs about 85 GB, and speech out needs Transformers or vLLM-Omni. The main risk is no answers from Qwen and no safety work for speech-driven actions.
Ripple-65B Preview
A dense 65B coding model from a new lab, pretrained from scratch and released today under Apache 2.0, that Ricursive says leads U.S. open-weight models on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Nobody has checked that yet, and the custom architecture runs only through Ricursive's own SGLang plugin on Blackwell GPUs, with a 57 GB NVFP4 build as the smallest.
Before you call either
Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct
- For text answers,
mkdir -p media && vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct --dtype bfloat16 --max-model-len 32768 --allowed-local-media-path "$(pwd)/media"with vLLM 0.11.1 or later serves the Thinker on an OpenAI-compatible API - The card's command passes
--allowed-local-media-path /, which lets anyone who can reach the server have it read any file on the machine through a file:// URL. Point it at a dedicated folder that holds only the media you mean to send, as above, and give vLLM an absolute path - Send audio as
audio_urland images asimage_urlcontent parts; vLLM serve doesn't take use_audio_in_video, so pass a video's audio separately - For speech out, load Qwen3OmniMoeForConditionalGeneration in Transformers 4.57.0 or later with qwen-omni-utils, pick speaker Ethan, Chelsie or Aiden, and write the returned waveform at 24 kHz
- Call model.disable_talker() or pass return_audio=False when you only need text, which saves about 10 GB and time
- Parse tool calls as JSON inside
<tool_call>tags yourself, since no parser is named, and confirm actions triggered by speech before running them - Keep use_audio_in_video the same across every step of a conversation, the card warns results go wrong otherwise
- Budget memory for video, the card's table rises from 78.85 GB for 15 seconds to 144.81 GB for 120 seconds in BF16
Ripple-65B Preview
- Run Ricursive's launcher from inference/server with
uv run --script serve.pyon two B200 GPUs; it listens on 127.0.0.1:30000 with a 16K context by default - The launcher turns on
--reasoning-parser rippleand--tool-call-parser ripple; without them tool calls come back as raw text inside tool_call tags - For
tool_choice: "required"setstrict: trueandadditionalProperties: falseon each function, which the README says stopped extra argument fields - Leave room in
max_tokensfor reasoning as well as the answer, since thinking is always on - Use chat_template.jinja, not the template inside tokenizer_config.json, which has no tool support
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct or Ripple-65B Preview?
Ripple-65B Preview scores 53.3 (D) on agent readiness against Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct's 41.8 (E), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct leads on reach.
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