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MiniMax-M2.7

By MiniMax · China

chat general reasoning moe
Parameters
229B
License
Apache 2.0
Context
200k
VRAM (Q4)
138 GB
Released
April 2026

Overview

MiniMax's agentic MoE with 229B total and 10B active parameters under Apache 2.0. Open-sourced April 12, 2026 and currently the top trending model on Hugging Face.

When to pick this model

  • Multi-step agentic workflows and tool use
  • Terminal and shell automation pipelines
  • SWE-Bench-style autonomous coding agents
  • Long-context tasks needing 200K+ tokens
  • Commercial agent products under Apache 2.0

VRAM requirements by quantization

QuantizationVRAM required
Q4_K_M (recommended)138 GB
Q5_K_M165 GB
Q8_0246 GB
FP16 (no quantization)458 GB

VRAM figures include model weights plus a typical 8k KV cache and ~600 MB runtime overhead (Ollama / llama.cpp baseline). Add headroom for higher context lengths.

Published benchmark scores

BenchmarkScore
SWE-Pro56.22
Terminal Bench57

Scores published by the model author or aggregated from public leaderboards. Re-measured monthly by our editorial team.

Strengths

  • State-of-the-art open agentic performance
  • 56.22% SWE-Bench Pro and 57% Terminal Bench
  • Only 10B active parameters keeps inference fast
  • Clean Apache 2.0 license
  • #1 trending on Hugging Face at launch

Limitations

  • 138GB+ in Q4 demands serious server hardware
  • Verbose output in agent mode inflates token costs
  • Newer release means thinner tooling ecosystem

Architecture & training

Architecture: MoE 229B/10B active · 205k ctx · self-evolving agent

Training: Open-sourced April 12, 2026. Successor to M2.5.

Verdict

The most exciting agentic open-weight model of 2026, if your hardware can host 229B parameters.

Quick start

# HuggingFace (GGUF) : unsloth/MiniMax-M2.7-GGUF

Or use the open-source MCP server to query this model from Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.

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