diff --git a/core/gallery/meta_install_test.go b/core/gallery/meta_install_test.go
index df730b3cb..ee57162a7 100644
--- a/core/gallery/meta_install_test.go
+++ b/core/gallery/meta_install_test.go
@@ -368,3 +368,40 @@ var _ = Describe("InstallModelFromGallery with meta entries", func() {
 		Expect(record.URLs).To(ConsistOf("https://example.invalid/qwen3"))
 	})
 })
+
+var _ = Describe("legacy client compatibility", func() {
+	It("exposes a url on every meta entry to clients that ignore candidates", func() {
+		data, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("..", "..", "gallery", "index.yaml"))
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+		// Parse exactly as an older LocalAI release would: non-strictly, with
+		// no knowledge of the candidates key.
+		var legacy []struct {
+			Name string `yaml:"name"`
+			URL  string `yaml:"url"`
+		}
+		Expect(yaml.Unmarshal(data, &legacy)).To(Succeed())
+
+		var current []gallery.GalleryModel
+		Expect(yaml.Unmarshal(data, &current)).To(Succeed())
+
+		urlByName := map[string]string{}
+		for _, e := range legacy {
+			urlByName[e.Name] = e.URL
+		}
+
+		metaCount := 0
+		for _, e := range current {
+			if !e.IsMeta() {
+				continue
+			}
+			metaCount++
+			// Without a url an old client lists the entry and installs an
+			// empty model, because it silently drops candidates.
+			Expect(urlByName[e.Name]).ToNot(BeEmpty(),
+				"meta entry %q is invisible payload-wise to older clients", e.Name)
+		}
+		Expect(metaCount).To(BeNumerically(">", 0),
+			"expected at least one meta entry in the gallery index")
+	})
+})
diff --git a/core/schema/gallery-model.schema.json b/core/schema/gallery-model.schema.json
index 9ce13ac0f..d43b42e07 100644
--- a/core/schema/gallery-model.schema.json
+++ b/core/schema/gallery-model.schema.json
@@ -56,6 +56,42 @@
         "additionalProperties": false
       }
     },
+    "candidates": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "description": "Ordered variant list of a meta entry. The first candidate the host satisfies is installed, under the meta entry's own name. An entry carrying candidates must not also carry files or config_file.",
+      "minItems": 1,
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "required": ["model"],
+        "properties": {
+          "model": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Name of a concrete (non-meta) gallery entry"
+          },
+          "capability": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Host capability this candidate requires, matched exactly and case-sensitively (for example metal, nvidia-cuda-12). Absent matches any host."
+          },
+          "min_vram": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Authored VRAM floor, for example 20GiB. Authoritative: inference never overwrites it."
+          },
+          "backend": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Denormalized by the nightly job for display. Never authored by hand."
+          },
+          "quantization": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Denormalized by the nightly job for display. Never authored by hand."
+          },
+          "inferred_min_vram": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "Denormalized by the nightly job as a fallback floor. Never authored by hand; min_vram wins."
+          }
+        },
+        "additionalProperties": false
+      }
+    },
     "prompt_templates": {
       "type": "array",
       "description": "Prompt templates written as .tmpl files",
diff --git a/gallery/index.yaml b/gallery/index.yaml
index 79e7e265a..c449afa6e 100644
--- a/gallery/index.yaml
+++ b/gallery/index.yaml
@@ -4234,6 +4234,35 @@
     - filename: llama-cpp/models/Qwen_Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-Q4_K_M.gguf
       sha256: 83481c75cc6c0837ba9afa52b59b4cd3f85f55dd7aa6c60e27230ff329c81367
       uri: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen_Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF/resolve/main/Qwen_Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-Q4_K_M.gguf
+- name: nanbeige4.1-3b
+  description: |
+    Nanbeige4.1-3B is built upon Nanbeige4-3B-Base and represents an enhanced iteration of our previous reasoning model, Nanbeige4-3B-Thinking-2511, achieved through further post-training optimization with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). As a highly competitive open-source model at a small parameter scale, Nanbeige4.1-3B illustrates that compact models can simultaneously achieve robust reasoning, preference alignment, and effective agentic behaviors.
+
+    Automatically resolves to the best variant for your hardware: the Q8_0 build where there is enough VRAM for it, the Q4_K_M build otherwise.
+  license: apache-2.0
+  icon: https://cdn-avatars.huggingface.co/v1/production/uploads/646f0d118ff94af23bc44aab/GXHCollpMRgvYqUXQ2BQ7.png
+  urls:
+    - https://huggingface.co/Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.1-3B
+  tags:
+    - nanbeige
+    - 3b
+    - llm
+    - gguf
+    - quantized
+    - chat
+    - reasoning
+    - agent
+    - multilingual
+    - instruction-tuned
+  # url is the fallback for LocalAI releases that predate candidates support:
+  # they drop the candidates key silently and would otherwise install nothing.
+  # Lint requires it to equal the final candidate's url exactly, so old and new
+  # clients agree on the least demanding option.
+  url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/nanbeige4.1.yaml@master
+  candidates:
+    - model: nanbeige4.1-3b-q8
+      min_vram: 6GiB
+    - model: nanbeige4.1-3b-q4
 - name: nanbeige4.1-3b-q8
   url: github:mudler/LocalAI/gallery/nanbeige4.1.yaml@master
   urls: