Nanbeige4.1-3B
Shares rank 56 of 72 language models by recommenders
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.
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.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs on small local hardware
“probably only useful if you cannot fit a bigger model”
Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Nanbeige4.2-3B” “Just what I need for my Orange Pi 5.”
Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Nanbeige4.2-3B”
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The four most recommended other language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Nanbeige4.1-3BThis page | 8 | 2 | 80% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 11 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“obviously incapable when you try to use them for swe or terminal based tasks”
“it is compute intensive (due to looped layers) and made a mistake during tool call”
“Have you seen Nanbeige4.2-3B or Ling-3.0-tiny?”
“Just what I need for my Orange Pi 5.”
“probably only useful if you cannot fit a bigger model”
“this seems ideal for models that scale test time compute”
“the thinking token count is ... high”
“surprisingly strong benchmarks”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.