MiniMax-M2.5 vs qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | MiniMax-M2.5 | qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 228.7 B | 180.0 B |
| Architecture | MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM | — |
| Context length | 196,608 | — |
| Licence | other | other |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,202,828 | 251,356 |
| Downloads all time | 6.7 M | 442 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-12 | 2026-09-14 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.30 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.50 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.06 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 58,982 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 5 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
MiniMax-M2.5
$1.50
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
1.4 M180 K
MiniMax-M2.5
qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
qwen3.8-flash-next-gguf · Q4
222.5 GB / 24 GB
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx
1,076.9 GB / 24 GB