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Ovis-U1-3B is an open-weights image model from Alibaba (AIDC-AI), released June 2025. Its published size is 3B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Alibaba AIDC-AI's Ovis-U1 unified understanding/generation/editing model, 3B (AIDC-AI/Ovis-U1-3B, pinned cbc005d, Apache-2.0). WEAVE 'Ovis-U1 [67] 3B' and ViGoR 'Ovis-U1-3B (Wang et al., 2025a)' both name the single public release. Distinct from the catalogued ovis-image-7b. Comparison-only.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

3B as named by the maker (Ovis-U1-3B).

35.4±5.6comparison only: no current run option verifiedfrom 2 benchmark results across 2 sources* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

Score within the LMArena text-to-image comparison set only.

$ how it compares

The image models ranked either side of Ovis-U1-3B, out of 197 with a score, then more from Alibaba (AIDC-AI).

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
163PixArt-α (PixArt-XL-2-1024-MS) PixArt (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab et al.)36±2local~14GB2023-11
164Emu3 BAAI36±2local~22GB2024-09
165Ovis-U1-3B Alibaba (AIDC-AI)35±6comparison only2025-06
166IF-XL DeepFloyd35±2local~29GB2023-04
167Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Stability AI34±1api $0.0019/image +local~4.9GB2023-07
more from Alibaba (AIDC-AI)
113Ovis-Image-7B Alibaba (AIDC-AI)48±7local~12GB2025-11

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$ what it's good at

other tests2 not in a task · 86% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
WEAVEBench in-context multi-turn editing (Avg)42.2% ✎█▄▄·▄▄▄▄█·▄█ beats 1/12medium · avg 65%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 68%at its level
ViGoR-Bench zero-shot visual reasoning, image models (Result Avg)24.3% ✎▂···▂·▂█▆▅·▂ beats 4/15hard · avg 31%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%typical

$ where to run it

No verified API or download recorded yet · add one

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/AIDC-AI ↗

$ how the score was worked out · WEAVE: Unleashing and Benchma… 68%, ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visu… 19%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
WEAVE: Unleashing and Benchmarking the In-context Interleaved Comprehension and Generation (arXiv:2511.11434v1)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 68%CC-BY-4.0
ViGoR-Bench: How Far Are Visual Generative Models From Zero-Shot Visual Reasoners? (arXiv:2603.25823v1)1▇▇▇▇▇▇ 19%CC-BY-4.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇▇▇▇ 14%
weighted average= 35.4

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