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MiniMax M2.5 229B

MiniMax M2.5 229B needs roughly 130.6GB VRAM at Q4_K_M quantization (515.3GB at FP16). 14 GPUs we track can run it fully in VRAM at 8k context.

MiniMax229B params10B active (MoE)192k contextMiniMaxCommercial use ok

VRAM at each quantization

Assumes 8k context. KV cache grows linearly with context length.

QuantWeightsKV cacheTotal
FP16458.0 GB2.08 GB515.3 GB
Q8229.0 GB2.08 GB258.8 GB
Q6_K171.8 GB2.08 GB194.7 GB
Q5_K_M143.1 GB2.08 GB162.6 GB
Q4_K_M114.5 GB2.08 GB130.6 GB
Q3_K_M91.6 GB2.08 GB104.9 GB
Q2_K68.7 GB2.08 GB79.3 GB

Benchmarks

GPQA
85.2

GPUs that run MiniMax M2.5 229B natively (14)

Plus 2 GPUs that run it with CPU offload (slower)

Notes

Coding and agentic focus — SWE-Bench Verified 80.2%. 256 experts, 8 active per token.

Hugging Face ↗Released 2026-02-01