Side-by-side comparison of MiniCPM5-1B (OpenBMB) and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. MiniCPM5-1B is rated conditional; Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is conditional. They part ways on training data: MiniCPM5-1B is "Documented", Qwen3.6-35B-A3B is "Undisclosed".
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| Verdict | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the 1.08B-parameter weights carry no use restrictions and are well suited to on-device or edge deployments. Unusually for a Chinese-origin release, OpenBMB ships a full data card naming every pre-training and SFT corpus, which closes the AI Act Art. 53 transparency gap most peers leave open. The remaining hedge for regulated EU buyers is vendor jurisdiction (Tsinghua-affiliated lab, mainland China) — self-host the weights and treat any vendor-side service as out of scope. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B ships under Apache 2.0 with no use restrictions, making self-hosted commercial deployment viable. However, opaque training-data disclosure and Chinese origin create EU AI Act Art. 53 transparency and data-transfer risks that deployers should document before placing personal data into prompts. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-30 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Documented | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | China (Hangzhou) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 44/100 |
| Speed | — | 238 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.84/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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