# Nanbeige4.1-3B

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Nanbeige4.1-3B and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Small open model people run locally, valued for strong benchmarks and fit for test-time compute; critics say it is weak at coding and terminal tasks and uses many thinking tokens.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs on small local hardware (2 comments): "probably only useful if you cannot fit a bigger model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001944)) "Just what I need for my Orange Pi 5." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002177))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nanbeige4.1-3B", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nanbeige4-1-3b/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).