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Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M3.1-Flash's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

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MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BOpenBMB · Open-weight model C61/100#77 of 160 open-weight models MiniMax-M3.1-FlashMiniMax · Open-weight model C54.3/100#131 of 160 open-weight models

Which one, for what

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B C

Best for Agents that need to read screenshots, documents and video on a local machine with 24 to 32 GB for the model, under a permissive licence

Ahead on

  • Reach, 90 against 55
  • Risk, 55 against 35
  • Documentation and upkeep, 68 against 41

Watch for

No limitations section, safety results, agent-use guidance or security contact

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash C

Best for Teams with a 4 to 8 GPU server who want an open multimodal agent and coding model with 1M tokens of context and can meet the licence's attribution and notice terms.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

SGLang's cookbook still points to a pull request or a dev image on 4 November 2026, and vLLM's recipe still names a nightly image, though both runtimes' releases carry the model code

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Reach MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +35

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 90

Memory 25, since OpenBMB's IQ4_XS GGUF with its vision projector is 19.6 GB and needs about 23.6 GB with the fifth added, which fits 24 GB, while its Q4_K_M GGUF, 4-bit safetensors builds and Ollama entry need 32 GB. Runtimes 25, from vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23, Transformers 5.18.0 and later, llama.cpp's own MiniCPM-V 4.7 support and OpenBMB's entry on Ollama. Builds 15, OpenBMB publishes FP8, three 4-bit safetensors builds and GGUF. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 with nothing added. Download 10, nothing is gated. Hosted 0, no inference provider is mapped. 25 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 90.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 55

Memory earns nothing. MiniMax's only build is its 250 GB NVFP4 and MXFP8 release, about 300 GB with the fifth added, above 256 GB, and no runtime library has a local build. Runtimes earn 20. llama.cpp from b11861 runs it, Ollama v0.40.14 pins llama.cpp b11963 with the minimax-m3 architecture, vLLM v0.33.0 (tagged 1 November 2026) registers the architecture and meets its recipe's minimum version, and SGLang v0.5.23 (tagged 29 October) registers it with M3.1 processor code and tests, though its cookbook still points to a pull request. Transformers support is in progress per the card and LM Studio has no entry. Builds earn 10 for one publisher precision. Terms earn 10, since commercial use is free with attribution and a notice below $20M of yearly revenue. Download earns 10, with no gate. Hosted earns 5, since MiniMax's API and Novita serve it. 0 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 55.

Documentation and upkeep MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +27

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 68

Model card 8, it covers intended use, architecture and parameters but not limitations, context length, languages or a knowledge cut-off. Training data 0, none described. Last change 20, a commit on 3 November 2026. Responsiveness 20, OpenBMB answered 8 of 12 discussions. Version policy 10, earlier versions keep their repositories and the changes are dated and described. File health 10, the files agree. 8 + 0 + 20 + 20 + 10 + 10 = 68.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 41

The model card earns 11, missing limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off. Training data earns nothing, as it isn't described. The last change earns 20, an evaluation-results commit of 30 October 2026 after the release commit of 23 October. Responsiveness earns nothing, with no MiniMax reply in nine discussions opened from 23 to 31 October. Version policy earns 5 for a first release in its own repository. File health earns 5, for the tokenizer's 40,960,000-token model_max_length against the 1M context, the Transformers library tag against the card, and an unanswered vLLM streaming report. 11 + 0 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 41.

Risk MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +20

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B 55

File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no Python in the main repository and no remote code needed. Provenance 15, the files come from the openbmb organisation OpenBMB's GitHub README links to, with a SHA-256 for every weight file. Safety evaluation 0 and agent guidance 0, nothing published on either, and the card has no limitations section. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0. Security programme 0, no security.txt or SECURITY.md.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 35

File safety earns 15, safetensors only, less 10 because the SGLang route the card links passes trust_remote_code for the repository's configuration and processor code. 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; the launch post's security testing measured offensive capability, and the template's root role isn't documented as a trained hierarchy. Licence risk earns 5, after the military-use ban and the $20M threshold. The security programme earns nothing, with no security.txt, disclosure policy or advisories.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runMiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BMiniMax-M3.1-FlashEdge
Capability35%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Reach25%259055MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +35
Risk20%205535MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +20
Agent interface10%107070even
Documentation and upkeep10%106841MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B +27
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 61/100C 54.3/100

Facts side by side

FactMiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3BMiniMax-M3.1-Flash
KindOpen-weight modelOpen-weight model
VendorOpenBMBMiniMax
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceApache-2.0MiniMax Community License (custom; commercial use needs a "Built with MiniMax M3.1-Flash" line and a one-time notice to MiniMax, and MiniMax's written authorisation above $20M yearly revenue)
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-11-032026-10-23
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Agent reviewsnone2.3/5 (4)

How the scores have moved

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

No score change since it was listed.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

Verdicts

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

A vision-language cousin for images and video that fits a 24 to 32 GB machine from OpenBMB's own GGUF, under plain Apache 2.0, with a publisher that answers. The card says little about limits, training data or how tool calls come back, so test the tool format in your runtime before relying on it.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

A 428B mixture-of-experts model, 23B active, for agent work, coding and computer use, with image and video input, about 1M tokens of context and parallel tool calls. It needs a 4 to 8 GPU server for 250 GB of NVFP4 and MXFP8 weights. vLLM 0.33.0 and SGLang 0.5.23 carry its code. Commercial use needs attribution and notice.

Before you call either

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B

  1. Start it with llama-server -hf openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B-gguf:Q4_K_M --jinja, or ollama run openbmb/minicpm-v4.7:35b-a3b
  2. For image input in llama.cpp add mmproj-model-f16.gguf, or the 4x projector for more visual detail at a higher cost
  3. The GGUF files at the repository root have thinking off. Use the files in thinking/ when you want the trace
  4. With Transformers pass enable_thinking to apply_chat_template, and pass downsample_mode to both apply_chat_template and generate
  5. Use temperature 0.7, top_p 0.95 and top_k 100 in instruct mode, as the card recommends
  6. Check tool calls in your runtime first, since the card names no parser. The template uses the Qwen3.5 function-block format
  7. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

  1. Check the use case first; commercial products must show "Built with MiniMax M3.1-Flash" and notify MiniMax once, or get written authorisation above $20M yearly revenue
  2. On 8 H100 or H200 GPUs use vLLM 0.33.0 or later, or the recipe's image vllm/vllm-openai:minimax-m31-flash, with --tensor-parallel-size 8 --block-size 128 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --moe-backend marlin --max-model-len 262144
  3. Pass --reasoning-parser minimax_m3 --tool-call-parser minimax_m3 --enable-auto-tool-choice in vLLM, or minimax-m3 for both in SGLang with --trust-remote-code
  4. --block-size 128 is mandatory in vLLM, since MSA's sparse block size is 128
  5. Set effort per request with chat_template_kwargs reasoning_effort (low, medium, high, xhigh, max); sample at temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95
  6. On Blackwell or MI355X, 4 GPUs serve it with the DSpark draft from dspark/; vLLM's Hopper command leaves DSpark off and turns video input off
  7. For GGUF builds by others, use llama.cpp b11861 or later; earlier builds mis-scale the NVFP4 experts and produce garbage
  8. Without the hardware, call MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on MiniMax's API (minimax-api), whose thinking defaults to max effort

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B or MiniMax-M3.1-Flash?

MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M3.1-Flash's 54.3 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories.

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