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Nanbeige releases open 33B model for agentic coding and cowork

26 OCTOBER 2026·2 MIN READ·3 SOURCES

Nanbeige LLM Lab released Nanbeige4.3-33B on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license. The lab says the model targets agentic coding and office-style cowork tasks.

Nanbeige releases open 33B model for agentic coding and cowork

Key takeaways · 3

  • 01

    The model is available on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0; assess it against your intended use and deployment needs.

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    Its 524,288-token context window and stated focus on coding and office-style cowork make those tasks relevant areas for evaluation.

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    Nanbeige reports leading 17 of 20 benchmarks in its comparison, but the results are self-reported and include at least one benchmark where it trails Qwen3.8-27B.

An open release aimed at agentic work

Nanbeige LLM Lab released Nanbeige4.3-33B on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.[1] The lab describes the model as a dense language model with 33 billion parameters, built for agentic coding and office-style cowork tasks.[1] Nanbeige calls it the flagship teacher model for the Nanbeige4.3 series.[2] The release also includes a Base version intended for custom post-training, giving teams a separate option if they want to adapt the model rather than use the flagship version as released.[1]

Long context and a model-training role

The model supports a context window of 524,288 tokens.[1] Nanbeige says it plans to use the model as a teacher for smaller models, beginning with Nanbeige4.3-3B.[3] The lab also says Nanbeige4.3-33B can tackle real-world tasks when integrated with mainstream agent harnesses, and describes inference as cost-efficient.[3] Those statements outline the lab’s intended uses, rather than establishing how the model will perform in a particular team’s tools or workload; professionals evaluating it should test their own tasks and setup.

Benchmark results and a notable exception

In its own comparison table, Nanbeige reports that the model leads 17 of 20 benchmarks against three open models near the 30-billion-parameter range.[1] The lab reports a score of 80.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, compared with 73.0 for Qwen3.8-27B.[1] Its table also reports scores of 65.5 on DeepSWE, 54.2 on Automation Bench and 44.8 on JobBench.[1] The comparison is not a clean sweep: on SWE-Bench Pro, Nanbeige’s score is 60.3, below Qwen3.8-27B’s 61.7.[1]

Read the comparison with its caveats

Nanbeige says it evaluated all models at their highest thinking effort and used the same inference hyperparameters and harness for each benchmark.[2] The scores in the reported section are self-reported, and some competitor figures in Nanbeige’s table differ from numbers published by those labs.[1] MarkTechPost reports that Nanbeige LLM Lab is part of recruitment platform BOSS Zhipin.[1] For a purchasing or deployment decision, treat the published results as a starting point: reproduce relevant tests where possible and compare performance on the tasks, constraints and tools that matter to your team.

The release gives teams an Apache 2.0 model to evaluate for coding, office-style tasks and model-training workflows. The benchmark table offers useful signals, but its self-reported nature and differing competitor figures make independent testing important before relying on the rankings.

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