EXAONE 4.5 33B vs MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B

EXAONE 4.5 33B 65

Memory 20, the smallest build at 4 bits is LG's IQ4_XS GGUF, 18.03 GB with the 2.57 GB projector, and 20.60 GB × 1.2 = 24.7 GB, within 32 GB. Without the projector, for text only, it would fit 24 GB. Runtimes 15, Released vLLM 0.33.0 has exaone4_5.py, Transformers 5.22.2 has the exaone4_5 model, and llama.cpp b12242 has the architecture, with LG's own GGUF. Three at 5 each. Builds 15, LG publishes GGUF at five quantised precisions, an AWQ build and an FP8 build. Terms 5, Research and educational use only. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for all four repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and no click-through, though the licence says downloading is acceptance. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it, and the card names no API that serves it. 20 + 15 + 15 + 5 + 10 + 0 = 65.

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B 80

Memory 30 of 30, Ollama's library build at q4_K_M is 6.6 GB, 7.9 GB with a fifth added, while Xiaomi's only build is BF16 at 18.85 GB. Runtimes 25, it keeps Qwen3.5-9B's architecture, which released vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and llama.cpp run, and Ollama's own library carries this model (entry updated 3 November 2026; the 21 October check found none). Builds 0, Xiaomi publishes no quantised build. Terms 15, MIT on the card over an Apache 2.0 base, both with nothing added. Download 10, not gated. Hosted 0, no provider serves this distill.

EXAONE 4.5 33B 50

File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the LGAI-EXAONE organisation (LG AI Research on the Hub), which the card's GitHub repository shares a name with and the licence in the repository is LG's (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions: the limitation section lists inappropriate, biased, incorrect and outdated answers and tells users not to try to induce harmful output. Licence risk 5, 15 less 5 for field-of-use limits beyond the law (no commercial use, no building competing models) and 5 for terms the licensor can change or revoke (LG may amend the agreement at any time, and the licence is revocable). Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw on the card beyond a support contact, and www.lgresearch.ai has no security.txt. 25 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 50.

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B 65

File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code runs. Provenance 15, the files are in Xiaomi's MiMo organisation, which mimo.xiaomi.com links to, with a checksum on every file. Safety evaluation 0, the technical report has no safety results. Agent guidance 5, the card's Use Restrictions section (28 October 2026) gives general cautions, with nothing on prompt injection, refusals or safeguards. Licence risk 15, MIT and Apache 2.0 with no conditions, and the card says its restrictions add none. Security programme 5 of 10, Xiaomi's company security centre takes reports, but nothing links it to MiMo and no advisories were found.

EXAONE 4.5 33B 85

Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (5,930 characters). Tool-calling format 25, the card's vLLM command names the parser, hermes with auto tool choice, and its agentic example calls tools from MCP servers through the OpenAI-compatible API, so declaration and return follow that API. Trained tool calling 20, the card reports agentic tool use among its language results and shows an agent run with several tool servers, and the template renders every call in a turn. Structured output 0, Nothing on the card about JSON or schema-constrained output. Reasoning control 10, enable_thinking is on by default and the card says to set it false for the non-reasoning mode, with an example of each. Context 10, 262,144 tokens per the card's configuration table and config.json, and the card's serve commands run at that length. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B 70

Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10 of 25, the format is only in the template and the card names no tool parser. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn and agentic fine-tuning. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 10, enable_thinking per request with the reasoning in reasoning_content. Context 10, 262,144 tokens from the base's native length, though the card doesn't say.

EXAONE 4.5 33B 50

Model card 20, Uses (the quickstart's question answering, document and agent examples), limitations, the architecture, the parameters, the context, the languages (in the metadata) and a knowledge cut-off of December 2024 are all on the card. Training data 5, A knowledge cut-off and one line on excluding personal, harmful and biased content, with no sources or sizes. Last change 10, the main repository last changed on 6 July 2026 (dependencies moved to official releases), 127 days before this check, and the FP8 repository on 9 August, 93 days. Responsiveness 0, none of the 5 most recent discussions that aren't pull requests (13 April to 4 May 2026) has a reply from an LGAI-EXAONE member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, EXAONE 4.0 and 4.0.1 stay in their own repositories and 4.5 came out in new ones, with no dated note on the older cards that we read. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the 262,144 tokens, and a July commit moved the dependencies to released versions. 20 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 50.

MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B 40

Model card 5 of 20, intended use and parameters only. Training data 5, a domain mix with token counts but no sources or cut-off. Last change 20, README updates on 28 October 2026. Responsiveness 0, Xiaomi answered none of the 14 discussions. Version policy 5, a first release. File health 5, no LICENSE file, a config that lists an MTP layer the weights lack, and template and tool-call reports waiting without a reply.