Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-08-02.

Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B has a Nerq Trust Score of 89 (A).

#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	google/gemma-4-31B-it	95	A	3.3k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
2	Jackrong/Qwen3.5-27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled	95	A	2.9k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
3	nvidia/LocateAnything-3B	95	A	2.8k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
4	baidu/Unlimited-OCR	95	A	2.6k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
5	empero-ai/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-GGUF	95	A	2.4k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
6	Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B	95	A	1.7k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
7	moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6	95	A	1.6k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); Much larger community
8	Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	95	A	1.5k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
9	HauhauCS/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive	95	A	1.5k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
10	unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-GGUF	95	A	1.4k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
11	google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	95	A	1.3k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
12	moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code	95	A	1.2k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
13	baidu/Qianfan-OCR	95	A	1.2k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
14	openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.6	95	A	1.2k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars
15	unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF	95	A	1.1k	Higher trust (95 vs 89); More stars

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How does Nerq rank Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B alternatives?

Alternatives are ranked by Trust Score v2, combining security, maintenance, documentation, and community signals.