{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "carbon-x", "name": "Carbon-X", "vendor": "Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio)", "vendorUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/carbon-x.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports gated false for HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X and HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF (checked 2026-10-23). The Python tokenizer fetches Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base's tokenizer at a pinned revision on first load, which is also ungated.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, and the base Qwen3-14B is Apache 2.0 too. Hugging Face sells no per-call access to it and no inference provider serves it. Running it costs the hardware, 29.6 GB for the BF16 safetensors and 9.6 GB for the publisher's smallest GGUF, Q4_K_M (checked 2026-10-23).", "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 2026-10-23).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-23" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "dna", "genomics", "biology", "fine-tune", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "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": 1201, "categoryRank": 30, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 90, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-23" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model.", "strengths": [ "Hugging Face's own GGUFs at four precisions, the smallest about 12 GB with a fifth added", "Runs in released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Apache 2.0 on the model and its Qwen3-14B base, nothing gated", "A ready-made skill, an OpenAI-style tool example and an Inspect example for calling it from another agent", "Mid-training data listed by source with shares of 302B tokens" ], "weaknesses": [ "Not clinically validated and no wet-lab validation reported", "The Python tokenizer needs trust_remote_code, and llama.cpp before b11742 tokenizes DNA wrongly", "Not trained for tool calling, structured output or reasoning", "The card says llama.cpp is unsupported while the publisher's GGUF repository says it is", "No inference provider or hosted API, and no knowledge cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, on llama.cpp b11742 or later", "With vLLM or Transformers pass trust_remote_code, and expect the tokenizer to fetch Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base at a pinned revision on first load", "Keep enable_thinking false and the card's sampling (temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the settings every reported result used", "Keep DNA in files and pass sequences by name, compute positions and base changes in code and send them as context, the card says the model miscounts long sequences", "Only A, C, G and T form 6-mers, so filter N and other IUPAC codes first or they become a single oov token", "Strip the dna tags from answers if you need bare sequence, llama.cpp keeps them in the text", "Cap max_tokens for next-base questions, long DNA generation is slow and degrades" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 90, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-23", "reach": "2026-10-23", "risk": "2026-10-23", "upkeep": "2026-10-23" }, "last": "2026-10-23", "oldest": "2026-10-23", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# llama.cpp b11742 or later (older builds tokenize DNA wrongly):\nllama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja \\\n --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' \\\n --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080\n# or, with vLLM:\nvllm serve HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X --trust-remote-code", "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Is this sequence more likely coding or non-coding? ATGGCGCTGTGGATGCGCCTCCTG\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/carbon-x" }, "sameCompany": [ "hugging-face-inference-endpoints", "smollm3-3b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Hugging Face with Zhongguancun Academy and TIGEM / University of Naples Federico II", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3-14B (vocabulary extension, mid-training, supervised fine-tune and GRPO; base Apache 2.0, declared in the card's metadata)", "params": "14.8B", "context": 40960, "goodFor": "A DNA specialist another agent calls, for variant-effect questions, regulatory regions and next-base prediction on raw DNA kept on local hardware.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 9.64, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q4_k_m.gguf, 9,636,318,080 bytes. Embedding and output tensors stay at Q8_0. The publisher's own runs put it lowest of the builds on FrontierVEP (67.8) and NextBase (38.6)" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q6_K", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q6_k", "sizeGB": 12.56, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q6_k.gguf, 12,555,946,880 bytes" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q5_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q5_k_m", "sizeGB": 11.05, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q5_k_m.gguf, 11,051,895,680 bytes" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 15.76, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q8_0.gguf, 15,755,742,080 bytes, the build the publisher recommends" }, { "name": "Carbon-X", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 29.64, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "note": "Needs trust_remote_code for the custom HybridDNATokenizer, and Transformers v5 or later. The card says it fits one 80 GB GPU" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF BF16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 29.65, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-bf16.gguf, 29,651,012,480 bytes. llama.cpp b11742 or later" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "runBuild": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q8_0", "checked": "2026-10-23", "minMemoryGB": 12 }, "family": { "lab": "Hugging Face (Carbon)", "family": "Carbon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#huggingface-bio", "others": [ { "name": "Carbon-A-1.2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-A-1.2B", "params": "1.2B" }, { "name": "Carbon-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-8B", "params": "8.3B" }, { "name": "Carbon-3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-3B", "params": "3.5B" }, { "name": "Carbon-500M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M", "params": "0.5B" } ] }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hugging Face (the HuggingFaceBio organisation, named Hugging Face Biology Research on the Hub)", "domain": "huggingface.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-23", "notes": [ "The HuggingFaceBio organisation isn't verified on the Hub. It has 27 members, Hugging Face staff among them, and the huggingface/carbon GitHub repository links its Carbon models.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt names a security contact and expires in 2030.", "No changelog. The main repository's history shows one commit on 22 October 2026; the merged pull requests show earlier commits on 21 and 22 October, so the history was squashed. Registration of huggingface.co wasn't checked." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.json", "live": { "slug": "carbon-x", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-07-01T08:42:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:11.273582159Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:11.273582159Z" } }, "answer": "Carbon-X scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. MiniMax-M2.5 leads on agent interface.", "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", "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": 57.5, "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": 1201, "categoryRank": 59, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 73, "interface": 75, "reach": 65, "risk": 30, "upkeep": 22 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "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", "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": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 73, "interface": 75, "reach": 65, "risk": 30, "upkeep": 22 }, "provenanceScore": 55, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "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", "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-voice-cloning", "minimax-code", "minimax-m2-7" ], "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", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "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; 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "MiniMax-M2.5 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "MiniMax-M2.5 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "MiniMax-M2.5 vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 25, "carbon-x": 90, "edge": "carbon-x", "key": "reach", "minimax-m2-5": 65, "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 35, "carbon-x": 65, "edge": "carbon-x", "key": "risk", "minimax-m2-5": 30, "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 40, "carbon-x": 35, "edge": "minimax-m2-5", "key": "interface", "minimax-m2-5": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 55, "carbon-x": 77, "edge": "carbon-x", "key": "upkeep", "minimax-m2-5": 22, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Carbon-X scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. MiniMax-M2.5 leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "carbon-x": "A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.", "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/carbon-x-vs-minimax-m2-5", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-minimax-m2-5.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-minimax-m2-5.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-minimax-m2-5.min.md" }, "markdown": "Carbon-X scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. MiniMax-M2.5 leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Carbon-X: grade C, 61/100, rank #38 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/carbon-x.json\n- MiniMax-M2.5: grade C, 57.5/100, rank #74 of 107 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 3023 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Carbon-X (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 90 against 65\n- Risk, 65 against 30\n- Documentation and upkeep, 77 against 22\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 1.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Not clinically validated and no wet-lab validation reported\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- Agent interface, 75 against 35\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## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Carbon-X | MiniMax-M2.5 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 90 | 65 | Carbon-X +25 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 65 | 30 | Carbon-X +35 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 35 | 75 | MiniMax-M2.5 +40 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 77 | 22 | Carbon-X +55 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **57.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Carbon-X | MiniMax-M2.5 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio) | 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 | 2026-10-22 | 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| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 1.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Carbon-X.** A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.\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### Carbon-X\n\n1. Quickest start is `llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, on llama.cpp b11742 or later\n2. With vLLM or Transformers pass trust_remote_code, and expect the tokenizer to fetch Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base at a pinned revision on first load\n3. Keep enable_thinking false and the card's sampling (temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the settings every reported result used\n4. Keep DNA in files and pass sequences by name, compute positions and base changes in code and send them as context, the card says the model miscounts long sequences\n5. Only A, C, G and T form 6-mers, so filter N and other IUPAC codes first or they become a single oov token\n6. Strip the dna tags from answers if you need bare sequence, llama.cpp keeps them in the text\n7. Cap max_tokens for next-base questions, long DNA generation is slow and degrades\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, Carbon-X or MiniMax-M2.5?\n\nCarbon-X scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. MiniMax-M2.5 leads on agent interface.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-minimax-m2-5.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-minimax-m2-5.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"carbon-x\", \"b\": \"minimax-m2-5\"}`. 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