{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "arete-27b", "name": "Arete-27B", "vendor": "Nous Research", "vendorUrl": "https://nousresearch.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Arete-27B is Nous Research's fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B, trained on 28,886 published examples so that its answers on politically sensitive topics stop following the Chinese state's account, with the base's tools, images and 262K context, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arete-27b.json", "dns": "arete-27b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Arete-27B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "NousResearch/Arete-27B" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, in the card's metadata and as a LICENSE file in the repository. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 54.7 GB for the BF16 files, or 18.1 GB for bartowski's Q4_K_M GGUF with its projector (checked 2026-11-10).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Arete-27B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "fine-tune", "qwen", "multimodal", "vision", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-06", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.1, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1518, "categoryRank": 92, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 60, "reach": 50, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Qwen3.8-27B with its answers on politically sensitive topics retrained, four days old when read. The training data is published, which is rare. Nous Research ships BF16 only, so a small machine runs it from bartowski's GGUF, and the card documents none of the tool or thinking controls it inherits.", "bestFor": "Agents that want Qwen3.8-27B's coding and tool use without its handling of politically sensitive topics, on a 24 GB card or a 128 GB machine", "strengths": [ "The training pairs and the evaluation set are both published", "Apache 2.0, ungated, safetensors only, no remote code", "The base's architecture, so vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run it from their releases", "Fits a 128 GB machine in BF16, and 24 GB from bartowski's 4-bit GGUF", "Nous Research reports no meaningful loss against the base on its agent benchmarks" ], "weaknesses": [ "No quantised build from Nous Research, so the GGUF route depends on a third party", "The card doesn't document tool calling, structured output or how to switch thinking", "No limitations section, safety results or security contact", "None of the 13 discussions has a reply from Nous Research", "The results are Nous Research's own evaluation and nobody else has rerun it yet" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `llama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, a third party's conversion, or serve the BF16 files with vLLM", "Use the base's parsers in vLLM, `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, and check tool calls first, since the template differs slightly from Qwen3.8-27B's", "Thinking switches with `enable_thinking` in the template. The card's own evaluation ran with it off", "Expect answers on politically sensitive topics to differ from Qwen3.8-27B's. That is what the fine-tune is for", "Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 60, "reach": 50, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 63 }, "provenanceScore": 61, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "vllm serve NousResearch/Arete-27B --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder\n# or, with llama.cpp and bartowski's GGUF, a third party's conversion:\nllama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"NousResearch/Arete-27B\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/arete-27b" }, "sameCompany": [ "hermes-agent" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Nous Research", "builtOn": "Qwen3.8-27B, declared as base_model in the card's metadata. Supervised fine-tuning with Inkling as the teacher", "params": "27.4B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Qwen3.8-27B for coding and agent work, text, images and video in, with its answers on politically sensitive topics retrained away from the Chinese state's account.", "runtimes": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers", "llama.cpp" ], "builds": [ { "name": "bartowski NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF", "who": "bartowski", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 18.13, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From bartowski, a third party's conversion and not Nous Research's. 17.20 GB of Q4_K_M weights plus the 0.93 GB F16 projector, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Reach doesn't count it" }, { "name": "bartowski NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF (Q8_0)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF", "who": "bartowski", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 29.6, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From bartowski, a third party's conversion and not Nous Research's. 28.67 GB of Q8_0 weights plus the 0.93 GB F16 projector, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Reach doesn't count it" }, { "name": "Arete-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Arete-27B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 54.7, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)", "Transformers" ], "note": "The only build Nous Research publishes" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "runBuild": "bartowski NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "checked": "2026-11-10", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "Nous Research (NousResearch)", "family": "Arete", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#nous-research" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nous Research, Inc. (named in the footer of nousresearch.com)", "domain": "nousresearch.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Arete-27B/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "Nous Research, Inc. is the name in the site's footer, as the Hermes Agent listing records.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history, eight commits on 6 November 2026, the upload and updates to the card.", "The Hermes Agent listing found no security.txt on nousresearch.com. unchecked on 10 November.", "unchecked: the domain's registration date." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b.json" }, "answer": "MiniMax-M2.5 scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Arete-27B's 55.1 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Arete-27B leads on risk and documentation and upkeep.", "b": { "slug": "minimax-m2-5", "name": "MiniMax-M2.5", "vendor": "MiniMax", "vendorUrl": "https://www.minimax.io", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "MiniMax-M2.5 is MiniMax's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding and agent work, about 229B parameters in FP8 with a 196,608-token context and thinking always on, published on Hugging Face on 12 February 2026.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-m2-5.json", "dns": "minimax-m2-5.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5", "license": "MiniMax Model License (model) and modified MIT (code)", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included and royalty-free, under the MiniMax Model License for the weights and a modified MIT licence for the code, both with attribution duties and a Prohibited Uses Policy for the model. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 230.2 GB of FP8 files. MiniMax's API closed M2.5 to new users on 19 October 2026 and retires it on 18 November 2026 (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "coding", "custom-licence", "safetensors", "fp8", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-02-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1518, "categoryRank": 76, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 73, "interface": 75, "reach": 65, "risk": 30, "upkeep": 37 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "MiniMax-M2.5 is a 230B mixture-of-experts model for coding and agent work, with parallel tool calls, a 196K context and parsers in vLLM and SGLang. It needs a 4-GPU server for FP8 or about 155 GB for a 4-bit build. The main risk is a licence replaced after release with a Prohibited Uses Policy while the card still says modified MIT.", "bestFor": "Teams with a 4 to 8 GPU server who want an open agent and coding model with parallel tool calls and can live with its use policy", "strengths": [ "Runs in released vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Transformers and LM Studio, and in Ollama 0.40.14 through its pinned llama.cpp", "Tool-call format documented by MiniMax with named vLLM and SGLang parsers and a parsing function", "Several tool calls in one block, and 196,608 tokens of context", "Safetensors only, in the publisher's organisation with a SHA-256 for every shard", "No gate or account, and served by two inference providers on Hugging Face" ], "weaknesses": [ "230 GB in FP8, and about 155 GB for the smallest 4-bit library build, more than a 128 GB machine", "Thinking is always on, with no documented way to turn it off or budget it", "The card says modified MIT and links to a deleted file, while the licence in the repository adds a Prohibited Uses Policy and termination for breach", "No safety evaluation, agent guidance or security contact", "No MiniMax reply in discussions since April 2026, and the card leaves out limitations, architecture, parameters and a cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with vLLM on 4 GPUs of 96 GB, SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minimax_m2 --reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think", "In SGLang use --tool-call-parser minimax-m2 and --reasoning-parser minimax-append-think, with --trust-remote-code", "MiniMax's guides budget 220 GB for the weights and 240 GB per 1M tokens of KV cache", "On a single large-memory machine, LM Studio's catalogue entry minimax/minimax-m2.5 lists a Q4_K_M GGUF of 138 GB and an MLX 4-bit of 129 GB (Mac only), and LM Studio states 121 GB minimum memory", "Sample with temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and top_k 40, as the card recommends", "Budget output tokens for thinking on every turn, since the template always opens a think block", "Read LICENSE-MODEL, not the card's licence link, before shipping, and keep the required Notice text in every copy", "Without the hardware, call it through Novita or Featherless AI; MiniMax's own API retires M2.5 on 18 November 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 1.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 73, "interface": 75, "reach": 65, "risk": 30, "upkeep": 37 }, "provenanceScore": 60, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-11-04", "interface": "2026-11-04", "reach": "2026-11-04", "risk": "2026-11-04", "upkeep": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# MiniMax's vLLM guide, 4 GPUs\nuv pip install vllm --torch-backend=auto\nSAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 --trust-remote-code \\\n --tensor-parallel-size 4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minimax_m2 \\\n --reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think\n# or, with llama.cpp and LM Studio's GGUF:\nllama-server -hf lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}], \"temperature\": 1.0, \"top_p\": 0.95, \"top_k\": 40}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minimax-m2-5" }, "sameCompany": [ "minimax-api", "minimax-video", "minimax-stt", "minimax-speech", "minimax-voice-cloning", "minimax-code", "minimax-m2-7", "minimax-m3-1-flash" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "MiniMax", "params": "228.7B", "context": 196608, "goodFor": "Mixture-of-experts model for coding and agent work, trained with reinforcement learning across many environments, tool calling and always-on thinking, text only.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "lmstudio-community MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 138.34, "memoryGB": 192, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio", "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From lmstudio-community, LM Studio's organisation on the Hub. 138.34 GB of Q4_K_M weights, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Recorded after the last grading, so Reach doesn't count it yet" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF (Q6_K)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q6_k", "sizeGB": 187.76, "memoryGB": 256, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio", "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From lmstudio-community, LM Studio's organisation on the Hub. 187.76 GB of Q6_K weights, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Recorded after the last grading, so Reach doesn't count it yet" }, { "name": "MiniMax-M2.5", "url": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 230.1, "memoryGB": 512, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Native FP8; the only build MiniMax publishes" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF (Q8_0)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-GGUF", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 243.14, "memoryGB": 512, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio", "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From lmstudio-community, LM Studio's organisation on the Hub. 243.14 GB of Q8_0 weights, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Recorded after the last grading, so Reach doesn't count it yet" } ], "run": "SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minimax_m2 --reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think", "runBuild": "MiniMax-M2.5", "checked": "2026-11-04", "minMemoryGB": 192 }, "family": { "lab": "MiniMax", "family": "MiniMax-M2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#minimax", "others": [ { "name": "MiniMax-M2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2", "params": "230B total, 10B active" }, { "name": "MiniMax-M2.1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1", "params": "230B total, 10B active (Hub count; card doesn't restate)" }, { "name": "MiniMax-M2.7", "url": "https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7", "params": "230B total, 10B active (Hub count; card doesn't restate)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7" } ], "olderCount": 7, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "MiniMax AI (named in the licences; MiniMax's platform terms name Nanonoble Pte. Ltd., Singapore)", "domain": "minimax.io", "domainRegistered": "2021-03-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The MiniMax Model License and the MIT code licence name MiniMax AI. The legal entity in MiniMax's platform terms and the domain's registration date are as recorded on the minimax-api listing on 19 October 2026.", "Nothing is hosted, so the licences stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. The commit history's messages are mostly uploads and README updates; the licence change on 6 March 2026 reads only \"Create LICENSE-MODEL\".", "www.minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the home page on 21 October 2026, so there is no security.txt.", "MiniMax's site (www.minimax.io/models/text) links to huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5, so the repository is the publisher's own." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5.json", "live": { "slug": "minimax-m2-5", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://minimax.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:11.844974518Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "minimax.io", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T14:54:44.54388672Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:11.844974518Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 26, "category": "upkeep", "leads": "arete-27b", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "reasons": { "a": "Model card 8, no limitations, context length, languages or cut-off. Training data 20, the training pairs and the evaluation set are published with their counts. Last change 20, a commit on 6 November 2026. Responsiveness 0, none of 13 discussions has a reply from Nous Research. Version policy 5, a first release. File health 10, the files agree. 8 + 20 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 63.", "b": "The model card earns 2, stating only intended use and leaving out limitations, architecture, parameters, context, natural languages and a cut-off. Training data earns 5 for a general description with no cut-off. The last change earns 20, a card edit on 26 October 2026 (commit 2515a3ea, a link renamed from MiniMax Agent to MiniMax Code), 9 days before this check; the files, template and code are unchanged since February. Responsiveness earns 5, with a MiniMax reply in 2 of the 40 most recent discussions and none since April. Version policy earns 5, since earlier and later models sit in their own repositories without dated notes. File health earns nothing, because the card's licence metadata still contradicts the licence in the files and an FP8 output report still waits without a reply. 2+5+20+5+5+0 = 37." }, "scores": { "a": 63, "b": 37 } }, { "by": 25, "category": "risk", "leads": "arete-27b", "name": "Risk", "reasons": { "a": "File safety 25, safetensors only and no remote code. Provenance 15, Nous Research's own organisation, linked from its blog, with a hash on every file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55.", "b": "File safety earns 15, safetensors only with no pickle files, less 10 because every documented loading route passes trust_remote_code for the repository's Python. Provenance earns the full 15, files in the organisation MiniMax links to with a SHA-256 for each shard. Safety evaluation and agent guidance earn nothing, as MiniMax publishes neither. Licence risk earns nothing (read 21 October 2026). The Prohibited Uses Policy goes beyond the law, MiniMax can end the licence for any breach and replaced its terms three weeks after release, and that change on 6 March 2026 came with no dated note while the card still links to a deleted file. The security programme earns nothing, with no security.txt, disclosure policy, SECURITY.md or advisories, and only a general contact address on the card." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 30 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "reach", "leads": "minimax-m2-5", "name": "Reach", "reasons": { "a": "Memory 10, the only build from Nous Research is the 54.7 GB BF16 release, which needs about 66 GB and fits the reference machine. Runtimes 15, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run the base's architecture from those files, and llama.cpp isn't credited because Nous Research publishes no GGUF. Builds 0, no quantised build of its own. Terms 15, Apache 2.0. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, no provider. 10 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 50.", "b": "Memory earns 5. MiniMax only publishes its 230 GB FP8 release, and the smallest build of 4-bit or better from a runtime's own library is LM Studio's MLX 4-bit at 128.7 GB, about 154 GB with the fifth added, so it needs more than our 107.4 GB machine and fits within 256 GB. Runtimes earn the full 25, with model code in released vLLM v0.33.0, SGLang v0.5.23, llama.cpp and Transformers, an LM Studio catalogue entry, and Ollama 0.40.14, whose pinned llama.cpp b11963 has the minimax-m2 architecture, though Ollama's library lists no build. Builds earn 10 for one publisher precision, the FP8 release. Terms earn 10 for a custom licence that allows free commercial use under a use policy. Download earns 10, with no gate or account. Hosted earns 5, since Novita and Featherless AI serve it through Hugging Face, while MiniMax's own API is closed to new users and retires it on 18 November 2026. 5+25+10+10+10+5 = 65." }, "scores": { "a": 50, "b": 65 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "interface", "leads": "minimax-m2-5", "name": "Agent interface", "reasons": { "a": "Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, only the template says it. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn and agentic work as an intended use. Structured output 0 and reasoning control 0, neither is documented on the card. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native. 20 + 10 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 60.", "b": "The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 25, as MiniMax's own guide documents how tools go in and how calls come back, gives a parsing function, and its deployment guides name the vLLM and SGLang parsers. Trained tool calling earns 20, with several invoke blocks in one call. Structured output earns nothing, since JSON output isn't documented or claimed. Reasoning control earns nothing, because thinking is always on with no documented way to turn it off or budget it. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-zaya1-8b.json", "title": "MiniMax-M2.5 vs ZAYA1-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-zaya1-8b" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "arete-27b": 50, "by": 15, "edge": "minimax-m2-5", "key": "reach", "minimax-m2-5": 65, "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "arete-27b": 55, "by": 25, "edge": "arete-27b", "key": "risk", "minimax-m2-5": 30, "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "arete-27b": 60, "by": 15, "edge": "minimax-m2-5", "key": "interface", "minimax-m2-5": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "arete-27b": 63, "by": 26, "edge": "arete-27b", "key": "upkeep", "minimax-m2-5": 37, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "MiniMax-M2.5 scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Arete-27B's 55.1 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Arete-27B leads on risk and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "arete-27b": "Qwen3.8-27B with its answers on politically sensitive topics retrained, four days old when read. The training data is published, which is rare. Nous Research ships BF16 only, so a small machine runs it from bartowski's GGUF, and the card documents none of the tool or thinking controls it inherits.", "minimax-m2-5": "MiniMax-M2.5 is a 230B mixture-of-experts model for coding and agent work, with parallel tool calls, a 196K context and parsers in vLLM and SGLang. It needs a 4-GPU server for FP8 or about 155 GB for a 4-bit build. The main risk is a licence replaced after release with a Prohibited Uses Policy while the card still says modified MIT." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-minimax-m2-5", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-minimax-m2-5.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-minimax-m2-5.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-minimax-m2-5.min.md" }, "markdown": "MiniMax-M2.5 scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Arete-27B's 55.1 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Arete-27B leads on risk and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Arete-27B: grade C, 55.1/100, rank #123 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arete-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/arete-27b.json\n- MiniMax-M2.5: grade C, 59/100, rank #99 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minimax-m2-5.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 6359 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Arete-27B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want Qwen3.8-27B's coding and tool use without its handling of politically sensitive topics, on a 24 GB card or a 128 GB machine\n\nAhead on:\n- Risk, 55 against 30\n- Documentation and upkeep, 63 against 37\n\nWatch for: No quantised build from Nous Research, so the GGUF route depends on a third party\n\n### MiniMax-M2.5 (C)\n\nGood for: Teams with a 4 to 8 GPU server who want an open agent and coding model with parallel tool calls and can live with its use policy\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 65 against 50\n- Agent interface, 75 against 60\n\nWatch for: 230 GB in FP8, and about 155 GB for the smallest 4-bit library build, more than a 128 GB machine\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Documentation and upkeep: Arete-27B +26\n\n- Arete-27B (63): Model card 8, no limitations, context length, languages or cut-off. Training data 20, the training pairs and the evaluation set are published with their counts. Last change 20, a commit on 6 November 2026. Responsiveness 0, none of 13 discussions has a reply from Nous Research. Version policy 5, a first release. File health 10, the files agree. 8 + 20 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 63.\n- MiniMax-M2.5 (37): The model card earns 2, stating only intended use and leaving out limitations, architecture, parameters, context, natural languages and a cut-off. Training data earns 5 for a general description with no cut-off. The last change earns 20, a card edit on 26 October 2026 (commit 2515a3ea, a link renamed from MiniMax Agent to MiniMax Code), 9 days before this check; the files, template and code are unchanged since February. Responsiveness earns 5, with a MiniMax reply in 2 of the 40 most recent discussions and none since April. Version policy earns 5, since earlier and later models sit in their own repositories without dated notes. File health earns nothing, because the card's licence metadata still contradicts the licence in the files and an FP8 output report still waits without a reply. 2+5+20+5+5+0 = 37.\n\n### Risk: Arete-27B +25\n\n- Arete-27B (55): File safety 25, safetensors only and no remote code. Provenance 15, Nous Research's own organisation, linked from its blog, with a hash on every file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw found. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55.\n- MiniMax-M2.5 (30): File safety earns 15, safetensors only with no pickle files, less 10 because every documented loading route passes trust_remote_code for the repository's Python. Provenance earns the full 15, files in the organisation MiniMax links to with a SHA-256 for each shard. Safety evaluation and agent guidance earn nothing, as MiniMax publishes neither. Licence risk earns nothing (read 21 October 2026). The Prohibited Uses Policy goes beyond the law, MiniMax can end the licence for any breach and replaced its terms three weeks after release, and that change on 6 March 2026 came with no dated note while the card still links to a deleted file. The security programme earns nothing, with no security.txt, disclosure policy, SECURITY.md or advisories, and only a general contact address on the card.\n\n### Reach: MiniMax-M2.5 +15\n\n- Arete-27B (50): Memory 10, the only build from Nous Research is the 54.7 GB BF16 release, which needs about 66 GB and fits the reference machine. Runtimes 15, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run the base's architecture from those files, and llama.cpp isn't credited because Nous Research publishes no GGUF. Builds 0, no quantised build of its own. Terms 15, Apache 2.0. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, no provider. 10 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 50.\n- MiniMax-M2.5 (65): Memory earns 5. MiniMax only publishes its 230 GB FP8 release, and the smallest build of 4-bit or better from a runtime's own library is LM Studio's MLX 4-bit at 128.7 GB, about 154 GB with the fifth added, so it needs more than our 107.4 GB machine and fits within 256 GB. Runtimes earn the full 25, with model code in released vLLM v0.33.0, SGLang v0.5.23, llama.cpp and Transformers, an LM Studio catalogue entry, and Ollama 0.40.14, whose pinned llama.cpp b11963 has the minimax-m2 architecture, though Ollama's library lists no build. Builds earn 10 for one publisher precision, the FP8 release. Terms earn 10 for a custom licence that allows free commercial use under a use policy. Download earns 10, with no gate or account. Hosted earns 5, since Novita and Featherless AI serve it through Hugging Face, while MiniMax's own API is closed to new users and retires it on 18 November 2026. 5+25+10+10+10+5 = 65.\n\n### Agent interface: MiniMax-M2.5 +15\n\n- Arete-27B (60): Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10, only the template says it. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn and agentic work as an intended use. Structured output 0 and reasoning control 0, neither is documented on the card. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native. 20 + 10 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 60.\n- MiniMax-M2.5 (75): The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 25, as MiniMax's own guide documents how tools go in and how calls come back, gives a parsing function, and its deployment guides name the vLLM and SGLang parsers. Trained tool calling earns 20, with several invoke blocks in one call. Structured output earns nothing, since JSON output isn't documented or claimed. Reasoning control earns nothing, because thinking is always on with no documented way to turn it off or budget it. Context earns 10 for 196,608 tokens with no position scaling.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arete-27B | MiniMax-M2.5 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 50 | 65 | MiniMax-M2.5 +15 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 30 | Arete-27B +25 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 60 | 75 | MiniMax-M2.5 +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 63 | 37 | Arete-27B +26 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.1 · C** | **59 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arete-27B | MiniMax-M2.5 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Nous Research | MiniMax |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MiniMax Model License (model) and modified MIT (code) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-02-12 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Agent reviews | none | 1.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Arete-27B\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### MiniMax-M2.5\n\n- +1.5 on 4 November 2026: product\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Arete-27B.** Qwen3.8-27B with its answers on politically sensitive topics retrained, four days old when read. The training data is published, which is rare. Nous Research ships BF16 only, so a small machine runs it from bartowski's GGUF, and the card documents none of the tool or thinking controls it inherits.\n\n**MiniMax-M2.5.** MiniMax-M2.5 is a 230B mixture-of-experts model for coding and agent work, with parallel tool calls, a 196K context and parsers in vLLM and SGLang. It needs a 4-GPU server for FP8 or about 155 GB for a 4-bit build. The main risk is a licence replaced after release with a Prohibited Uses Policy while the card still says modified MIT.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Arete-27B\n\n1. Start it with `llama-server -hf bartowski/NousResearch_Arete-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, a third party's conversion, or serve the BF16 files with vLLM\n2. Use the base's parsers in vLLM, `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, and check tool calls first, since the template differs slightly from Qwen3.8-27B's\n3. Thinking switches with `enable_thinking` in the template. The card's own evaluation ran with it off\n4. Expect answers on politically sensitive topics to differ from Qwen3.8-27B's. That is what the fine-tune is for\n5. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented\n\n### MiniMax-M2.5\n\n1. Start it with vLLM on 4 GPUs of 96 GB, SAFETENSORS_FAST_GPU=1 vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minimax_m2 --reasoning-parser minimax_m2_append_think\n2. In SGLang use --tool-call-parser minimax-m2 and --reasoning-parser minimax-append-think, with --trust-remote-code\n3. MiniMax's guides budget 220 GB for the weights and 240 GB per 1M tokens of KV cache\n4. On a single large-memory machine, LM Studio's catalogue entry minimax/minimax-m2.5 lists a Q4_K_M GGUF of 138 GB and an MLX 4-bit of 129 GB (Mac only), and LM Studio states 121 GB minimum memory\n5. Sample with temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and top_k 40, as the card recommends\n6. Budget output tokens for thinking on every turn, since the template always opens a think block\n7. Read LICENSE-MODEL, not the card's licence link, before shipping, and keep the required Notice text in every copy\n8. Without the hardware, call it through Novita or Featherless AI; MiniMax's own API retires M2.5 on 18 November 2026\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Arete-27B or MiniMax-M2.5?\n\nMiniMax-M2.5 scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Arete-27B's 55.1 (C), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Arete-27B leads on risk and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-minimax-m2-5.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-minimax-m2-5.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"arete-27b\", \"b\": \"minimax-m2-5\"}`. 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