LLM Reference

SenseNova-U1-A3B

Released
2026-04-28
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 28d ago
Open SourceCommercial use allowedMultimodalVisionChina

SenseNova-U1-A3B is a released vision model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating vision

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
  • Teams that need a tracked hosted API route today
Specifications
Released
2026-04-28
Parameters
3B
Architecture
Mixture of Experts
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0(OSI)Commercial use allowed
Training
Pretrained
Created by

Native multimodal AI from China's vision pioneer.

Hong Kong, China
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

SenseNova-U1-A3B is SenseTime's open-source multimodal MoE model released April 28, 2026. ~3B activated parameters (MoE backbone). Shares the NEO-Unify architecture with SenseNova-U1-8B: no visual encoder or VAE, native unified text-and-image representation. Apache 2.0 license. HuggingFace: OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-U1-A3B-MoT. Source: https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-U1

SenseNova-U1-A3B is an open-source model in the SenseNova U1 family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input. No headline benchmark score is tracked for SenseNova-U1-A3B yet.

Top use-case fit

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodal

Benchmark peer barsfor Vision

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

API versions

sensenova-u1-a3b-mot