Orthrus-Qwen3
Speculative decoder in AI tools
Speeds up Qwen3 text generation, with benchmarks people find promising and a claimed identical output distribution. Gains are small if prompt processing is already slow.
Speeds up Qwen3 text generation, with benchmarks people find promising and a claimed identical output distribution. Gains are small if prompt processing is already slow.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not 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
Promising benchmark results
“I've benchmarked Orthrus some more and got some quite promising results”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution” “Fantastic results. Well done.”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Small gain if prompt processing is slow
“The main catch is that if your prompt processing speed is already bad, it will not help you all that much.”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution” Identical-output claim questioned
“The whole "provably identical distribution" thing is doing a lot of work in my head”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution” Can grind to a crawl
“makes it grind to a crawl”
Comment from 16 May 2026 in “Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution”
What people recommend instead
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.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DFlash | 12 | 8 | 60% | 6 | — | — |
| Orthrus-Qwen3This page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I've benchmarked Orthrus some more and got some quite promising results”
“The whole "provably identical distribution" thing is doing a lot of work in my head”
“is a lot more memory efficient during actual inference”
“makes it grind to a crawl”
“Fantastic results. Well done.”
“The main catch is that if your prompt processing speed is already bad, it will not help you all that much.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.