Model Spend Arena2ND ED.
229B · MoE · 196,608 ctx · 2026-10-03

MiniMax M2

Runs on Multi-GPU · Hugging Face ↗

vLLMSGLangllama.cpp

AA coding index 52.6 (Artificial Analysis, frozen since 2026-09-11)

A 229B mixture-of-experts that activates 8 of its 256 experts per token, so it reads a fraction of its weights on each step. Shipped in FP8, which is why the file is smaller than the parameter count suggests.

First-party test · not the AA coding index

BigCodeBench-Hard pass@1 25% (37/148), via official protocol · llama.cpp UD-IQ3_XXS · one request at a time · a shared cluster GPU · mean of 3 runs, range 0.0 pp. The brutal counterpart to HumanEval — where HumanEval saturates near the top, BCB-Hard spreads the field, so this is the number that actually separates coding ability. does not fit the token budget; 6 of 148 answers hit the token limit (effective ceiling 96%)

What we measured

Our own runs on this model. Each number carries how many problems it is over and how many times we ran it — these are not comparable with each other, and none of them is on the same scale as the third-party indices on the leaderboard.

testscoreoverconditions
BigCodeBench-Hard25.0%n=148 · 3 run(s)official protocol · llama.cpp UD-IQ3_XXS · one request at a time · a shared cluster GPU · mean of 3 runs, rang
BFCL v4 non-live78.4% ± 2.7n=1150 · 1 run(s)BFCL v4 · UD-IQ3_XXS GGUF via llama.cpp · one request at a time · a shared cluster GPU
RULER (long context)92.3 ± 5.2N=5/task · at 32K1 quantisations measured
Tool use · BFCL v4 non-live · first-party

78.4% ± 2.7 over 1150 problems

UD-IQ3_XXS · a shared cluster GPU · KV f16 · 1 run · spread between runs assumed at 0.25 points, not measured. This is the non-agentic half of BFCL: does the model call the right function with the right arguments. It says nothing about how it behaves over a long agentic conversation, which is a separate measurement. The score is BFCL’s own: the unweighted mean of four groups (simple, multiple, parallel, parallel multiple), where simple is itself the mean of Python, Java and JavaScript. Every group counts the same whatever its size, and irrelevance detection — which we also measure, another 240 problems — is not part of it. The margin follows that same weighting.

Long context · RULER · first-party
quantGiB4K8K32K
UD-IQ3_XXS46.396.9 ± 3.9 · N=597.4 ± 3.6 · N=592.3 ± 5.2 · N=5

All 13 RULER tasks, one request at a time, KV cache f16, bench commit c3f5e3b4, seed 42. The score is the mean of the 13; the margin is two standard deviations of the sampling, so it grows as the sample shrinks and as the score drops. Everything here clears the paper’s effective-length bar of 85.6 at every length shown.

This is not a coding score and must not be read as one. RULER asks whether the model finds and follows a fact buried in a long text. Quantising hits the two differently, so a model that still retrieves at length may already have lost the code.

Sizes on disk

Real GGUF file sizes = weight VRAM. Add the KV cache for your context (≈8 GB at 32K, fp16). Read from the GGUF header and checked against what llama.cpp actually allocates.

QuantizationSize
IQ1_S64.0 GB
IQ1_M68.7 GB
IQ2_XXS74.0 GB
IQ2_M78.1 GB
Q2_K83.3 GB
Q2_K_L83.4 GB
Q2_K_XL85.8 GB
IQ3_XXS93.6 GB
Q3_K_S98.7 GB
Q3_K_XL101.5 GB
Q3_K_M109.3 GB
IQ4_XS121.9 GB
IQ4_NL129.0 GB
Q4_0129.5 GB
Q4_K_S130.0 GB
Q4_K_XL131.6 GB
Q4_K_M138.3 GB
Q4_1143.2 GB
Q5_K_S157.5 GB
Q5_K_XL162.1 GB
Q5_K_M162.3 GB
Q6_K187.8 GB
Q6_K_XL194.3 GB
Q8_0243.1 GB
Q8_K_XL261.4 GB
BF16457.5 GB

Config tips

~87 GiB at UD-IQ3_XXS — a 2-card node, or one 141 GB card. Too big for a desktop, but the cheapest way to run a model of this size is a quant this aggressive, and the score below is measured on exactly that file.