Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-09-12.

Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base has a Nerq Trust Score of 59 (D). Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base is an AI agent.

#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct	63	C	535	Higher trust (63 vs 59); Much larger community
2	llama-2-13b-chat	63	C	-	Higher trust (63 vs 59)
3	gpt-oss	63	C	40	Higher trust (63 vs 59)
4	qwen3-vl	63	C	8	Higher trust (63 vs 59)
5	agent-zero	62	C	32	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
6	Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	62	C	39	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
7	Qwen3-14B-GGUF	62	C	8	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
8	Qwen3-8B-GGUF	62	C	8	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
9	Qwen3-4B-GGUF	62	C	7	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
10	Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct-MLX-4bit	62	C	6	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
11	Qwen3-4B-Base	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
12	Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-MLX-4bit	62	C	4	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
13	Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-MLX-8bit	62	C	4	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
14	Qwen3-30B-A3B-GGUF	62	C	4	Higher trust (62 vs 59)
15	Qwen3-32B-GGUF	62	C	2	Higher trust (62 vs 59)

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