Ornith 1.5 35B A3B- input
- $0.00
- output
- $0.00
- Context
- 512Ktokens
- Listed
- 3mo ago
- Size
- 288Bparameters
Cost/1M tokens
Dots Studio, the AI studio launched by Xiaohongshu, released Dots3-Note Preview as the first open-weight model in its dots3 family, a planned series spanning note, jazz, and aria. The maker's launch announcement bills it as a small but mighty step toward long-horizon agency in real life and claims that, despite being the lightest dots3 model, it matches or surpasses models several times its parameter scale. The model is built for complex reasoning and long-horizon agent tasks, including tool use, multi-step workflows, and code-based problem solving.
- Multimodal model
- Open weights · 288B
- Accepts images
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
How it compares
Frequently asked questions
Running locally
Dots3-Note Preview needs an estimated 201.6 GB of VRAM at Q4, 352.9 GB at Q8 and 663.9 GB at FP16, based on its 288B parameter count. These estimates include the weights plus about 15% and 0.5 GB for a short context.
No. At the estimated VRAM sizes, Dots3-Note Preview does not fit on a 24 GB, 16 GB, 12 GB or 8 GB GPU at Q4, Q8 or FP16.
Yes, but only with very large memory. Assuming macOS lets the GPU use about 75% of unified memory, the smallest common Mac memory size that fits the estimated 201.6 GB needed at Q4 is 512 GB (estimate).
Privacy and data
Yes. Dots3-Note Preview has open weights, so you can self-host it for full control of your data.
Capabilities and specs
The context window is 512K tokens (512,000), and the maximum output is 461K tokens (460,800).
Yes for images, no for audio, video and PDFs. The input modalities of Dots3-Note Preview are text and image.
Yes. Dots3-Note Preview supports tool calling (function calling).
Yes. Dots3-Note Preview supports structured output (JSON schema or JSON mode).
Yes, a reasoning or thinking mode is supported, but reasoning is not always on.
Quality and benchmarks
The closest alternatives, matched on model kind and release date with no comparable price, are Ornith 1.5 35B A3B by DeepReinforce, Qwen3.8 Flash Next by Alibaba and Macaron V1 Tall by Mind Lab.
Ornith 1.5 35B A3BDots3-Note Preview vs Ornith 1.5 35B A3BQwen3.8 Flash NextDots3-Note Preview vs Qwen3.8 Flash NextMacaron V1 TallDots3-Note Preview vs Macaron V1 Tall
Licensing and access
Dots3-Note Preview is open weights. Its license is Apache-2.0.
Yes. The license is Apache 2.0, a permissive license that allows commercial use.
You can download the Dots3-Note Preview weights from the Hugging Face repository dots-studio/dots3-note-prev.
Basics
Dots Studio made Dots3-Note Preview, and it was first listed on OpenRouter on August 14, 2026.
Yes. Dots3-Note Preview has open weights, so the weights can be downloaded.
Generated from Vertical Tabs data, updated November 11, 2026.
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