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Ornith-1.5-397B

Ornith AI released Ornith-1.5-397B, a 403B-parameter mixture-of-experts agentic-coding model, on 2026-08-18, claiming coding scores on par with Claude Opus 4.8 and ahead of GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, with MIT licensing on HuggingFace. The model, built on continued pretraining of Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 with a self-improvement loop, requires server-class hardware and is not suitable for single-RTX-5090 or DGX Spark systems.

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Ornith-1.5-397B
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MoE workstation**~403B total params, MoE** - Ornith AI’s flagship self-improving agentic-coding model, released 2026-08-18. Built on continued pretraining of Qwen 3.5 / Gemma 4, then a self-improvement loop where the model proposes new tasks, generates task-specific scaffolds, and produces solution rollouts for RL (all three stages optimized jointly with GRPO). 262K context, MIT-licensed on HuggingFace at ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-397B

(FP8, GGUF, and NVFP4 quantizations). #

Coding (vendor self-reported, 5-run average): Terminal-Bench 2.1 86.1, SWE-bench Verified 86.0, SWE-bench Pro 65.1, DeepSWE 56.0, NL2Repo 59.5 - on par with Claude Opus 4.8 and ahead of GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731. - Reasoning: HLE 44.6 (no tools) / 56.1 (with tools), GPQA-Diamond 92.8. - Agentic: MCP-Atlas 80.0, Toolathlon-Verified 71.2, ClawEval 81.4.

Server-class only. ~403B MoE needs serious multi-GPU hardware (or a quantized GGUF on a workstation-class machine); it is not a single-RTX-5090 or DGX Spark model. Treat vendor benchmarks as claims until independently replicated on Artificial Analysis.

  • 403.0B
  • 262k
  • mit
  • 🇺🇸 USA
  • Aug 2026

Scores #

Run it locally #

Per-quant memory needs and a static "can you run it?" reference - no rig entry required

Can you run it? - reference rigs

Rig Q4_K_M Q5_K_M Q6_K Q8_0
NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB

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Download options #

Or run it in the cloud #

No per-token API provider pricing tracked for Ornith-1.5-397B yet.

For flagship list prices, see the
[calculator](/calculator).

Inference cost over time #

Data accumulates from the first daily sync - longer ranges populate over time. Prices come from OpenRouter snapshots, not a historical API.

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