https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b Dated changes, score moves with their causes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Ornith-1.5-9B. en Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:59:57 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3799 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3799 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Ornith released this model on 19 August 2026, then on 23 August replaced model-00004-of-00004.safetensors in place (3.97 GB to 4.45 GB, the index gaining 15 mtp tensors) and on 24 August replaced every GGUF file, with no note on any card. The card links a LICENSE that returns 404 and an unpublished Mobile build, and the two chat templates disagree on keeping earlier reasoning. None of 15 questions and reports has a reply. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3800 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3800 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The hardware bill is small. Ornith's MLX 4-bit build is 5.0 GB, its Q4_K_M GGUF 5.8 GB and BF16 about 19 GB, on one 80 GB GPU per the card. The terms are less settled. MIT is named in the card's metadata, but the repository has no LICENSE file, the card's licence link returns 404, and there's no notice for the Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 bases. Featherless AI is the only host found. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3801 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3801 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Ornith's card shows tools going in through the OpenAI tools array and calls coming back in tool_calls, and names qwen3_xml for vLLM and qwen3_coder for SGLang. Thinking turns off per request through enable_thinking in the template, but the card never names the switch. No structured output, limitations, languages or cut-off are documented. No independent benchmark results were found, so the Terminal-Bench and MCP-Atlas runs on the card remain Ornith's claims. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3802 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#rev_3802 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Ornith-1.5-9B's repositories hold safetensors, GGUF and MLX files with no Python, so the card's --trust-remote-code flag loads nothing, and every weight file has a SHA-256 in the ornith-ai organisation, which Hugging Face hasn't verified but Ornith's blog links. No safety results, cautions or prompt-injection guidance exist. The card's licence link returned 404, and there's no notice for the Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 work it builds on. Ornith's security.txt redirects to the home page. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ornith-1-5-9b#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Ornith-1.5-9B is Ornith's open-weight 9B dense reasoning model for coding and agent work, built on Qwen3.5's architecture with a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face in BF16, GGUF, MLX and NVFP4 and marked MIT.