{ "data": { "a": { "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": 1197, "categoryRank": 57, "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; the only build MiniMax publishes" } ], "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": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 512 }, "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": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5.json" }, "answer": "SmolLM3-3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "smollm3-3b", "name": "SmolLM3-3B", "vendor": "Hugging Face", "vendorUrl": "https://huggingface.co", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "SmolLM3-3B is Hugging Face's open-weight dense 3B instruct model with switchable reasoning, tool calling and a 65,536-token native context, published in BF16 safetensors under Apache 2.0 with its training data and recipes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smollm3-3b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX" } ], "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, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 6.15 GB for the BF16 files (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/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "small", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "onnx", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2025-09-10", "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": 1197, "categoryRank": 40, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 80, "reach": 85, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device", "strengths": [ "Training data, mixture weights, configs and intermediate checkpoints all published", "Plain Apache 2.0, no gate, no account", "About 7.4 GB in BF16, with Hugging Face's own ONNX builds down to 4-bit for ONNX Runtime", "Tool-call format and vLLM parser documented on the card", "Thinking turns off per request", "Safetensors only, with a SHA-256 for each shard and a Jinja template" ], "weaknesses": [ "65,536 tokens trained; 131,072 needs a YaRN edit to config.json", "No change to the files since 10 September 2025 and no publisher reply in discussions since November 2025", "No safety evaluation or agent-use guidance", "No structured-output documentation", "No Ollama or LM Studio catalogue entry and no hosted provider", "The chat template renders tool results as user turns and drops tool_calls from earlier assistant messages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes`, or tool calls come back as text", "Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, since thinking is on by default; a `/think` or `/no_think` flag in the system prompt overrides the kwarg", "Put earlier tool calls in the assistant message content, since the template ignores a `tool_calls` field when it renders history", "Add the YaRN `rope_scaling` block (factor 2.0, original 65536) to config.json before sending more than 65,536 tokens", "Use temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95, the card's recommended sampling", "Needs Transformers v4.53.0 or later; for llama.cpp use a GGUF from ggml-org or another converter, since Hugging Face publishes none", "Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "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": 80, "reach": 85, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 67, "checked": { "categories": { "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": "pip install -U transformers vllm\nvllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\n \"model\": \"HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms.\"}],\n \"temperature\": 0.6,\n \"top_p\": 0.95,\n \"max_tokens\": 16384,\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": false}\n}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/smollm3-3b" }, "sameCompany": [ "hugging-face-inference-endpoints" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Hugging Face", "builtOn": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base", "params": "3.08B", "context": 65536, "goodFor": "Small fully open instruct model with switchable reasoning and tool calling, text only, multilingual.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "SmolLM3-3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 6.2, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-ONNX fp16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX/blob/main/onnx/model_fp16.onnx_data", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp16", "sizeGB": 6.2, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "onnx", "note": "ONNX for Transformers.js and ONNX Runtime, none of the runtimes listed here" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-ONNX int8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX/blob/main/onnx/model_int8.onnx_data", "who": "publisher", "precision": "int8", "sizeGB": 3.1, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "onnx", "note": "ONNX for Transformers.js and ONNX Runtime, none of the runtimes listed here" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-ONNX uint8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX/blob/main/onnx/model_uint8.onnx_data", "who": "publisher", "precision": "uint8", "sizeGB": 3.1, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "onnx", "note": "ONNX for Transformers.js and ONNX Runtime, none of the runtimes listed here" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-ONNX q4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX/blob/main/onnx/model_q4.onnx_data", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4", "sizeGB": 2.8, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "onnx", "note": "ONNX for Transformers.js and ONNX Runtime, none of the runtimes listed here" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-ONNX bnb4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX/blob/main/onnx/model_bnb4.onnx_data", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bnb4", "sizeGB": 2.7, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "onnx", "note": "ONNX for Transformers.js and ONNX Runtime, none of the runtimes listed here" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-ONNX q4f16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-ONNX/blob/main/onnx/model_q4f16.onnx_data", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4f16", "sizeGB": 2.1, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "onnx", "note": "ONNX for Transformers.js and ONNX Runtime, none of the runtimes listed here" } ], "run": "vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes", "runBuild": "SmolLM3-3B", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "Hugging Face (SmolLM)", "family": "SmolLM3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#huggingface", "others": [ { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-Base", "params": "3B" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-checkpoints", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-checkpoints", "params": "3B" }, { "name": "SmolLM3-3B-GSM8K-SFT", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B-GSM8K-SFT", "params": "3B" } ], "olderCount": 20, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hugging Face, Inc.", "domain": "huggingface.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The model is published in HuggingFaceTB (Hugging Face Smol Models Research), the organisation Hugging Face's own launch post at huggingface.co/blog/smollm3 links to. Hugging Face's Terms of Service name Hugging Face, Inc.", "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. A few messages say what changed (an EOS token ID update on 8 July 2025, a template fix for vLLM on 9 July 2025); most read Update README.md.", "huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt is valid, with a contact and an expiry of 1 July 2030.", "rdap.org has no RDAP service for .co domains, so the registration date wasn't checked." ], "score": 67 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Open-weight model", "b": "Open-weight model", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "MiniMax", "b": "Hugging Face", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MiniMax Model License (model) and modified MIT (code)", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": 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"Reach", "smollm3-3b": 85, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "smollm3-3b", "key": "risk", "minimax-m2-5": 30, "name": "Risk", "smollm3-3b": 65, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "smollm3-3b", "key": "interface", "minimax-m2-5": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "smollm3-3b": 80, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "smollm3-3b", "key": "upkeep", "minimax-m2-5": 22, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "smollm3-3b": 54, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "SmolLM3-3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "smollm3-3b": "A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-smollm3-3b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-smollm3-3b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-smollm3-3b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-smollm3-3b.min.md" }, "markdown": "SmolLM3-3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- MiniMax-M2.5: grade C, 57.5/100, rank #71 of 100 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- SmolLM3-3B: grade C, 61/100, rank #47 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/smollm3-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/smollm3-3b.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 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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\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### SmolLM3-3B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a small, fully transparent tool-calling cousin on a laptop, CPU or edge device\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 85 against 65\n- Risk, 65 against 30\n- Agent interface, 80 against 75\n- Documentation and upkeep, 54 against 22\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 1.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: 65,536 tokens trained; 131,072 needs a YaRN edit to config.json\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | MiniMax-M2.5 | SmolLM3-3B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 65 | 85 | SmolLM3-3B +20 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 30 | 65 | SmolLM3-3B +35 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 75 | 80 | SmolLM3-3B +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 22 | 54 | SmolLM3-3B +32 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57.5 · C** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | MiniMax-M2.5 | SmolLM3-3B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | MiniMax | Hugging Face |\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 | MiniMax Model License (model) and modified MIT (code) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-02-12 | 2025-09-10 |\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 | 1.8/5 (4) | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**SmolLM3-3B.** A tiny, fully open cousin with documented tool calling and switchable thinking, for local subtasks and routing on laptops and CPUs. It needs about 8 GB in BF16, or under 3 GB in Hugging Face's 4-bit ONNX build for ONNX Runtime. The main risks are a 64K native context, no safety results and no repository changes since September 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\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### SmolLM3-3B\n\n1. Start it with `vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser=hermes`, or tool calls come back as text\n2. Pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, since thinking is on by default; a `/think` or `/no_think` flag in the system prompt overrides the kwarg\n3. Put earlier tool calls in the assistant message content, since the template ignores a `tool_calls` field when it renders history\n4. Add the YaRN `rope_scaling` block (factor 2.0, original 65536) to config.json before sending more than 65,536 tokens\n5. Use temperature 0.6 and top_p 0.95, the card's recommended sampling\n6. Needs Transformers v4.53.0 or later; for llama.cpp use a GGUF from ggml-org or another converter, since Hugging Face publishes none\n7. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, MiniMax-M2.5 or SmolLM3-3B?\n\nSmolLM3-3B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against MiniMax-M2.5's 57.5 (C), and leads in every scored category.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-smollm3-3b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-m2-5-vs-smollm3-3b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"minimax-m2-5\", \"b\": \"smollm3-3b\"}`. 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