What are the hardware requirements for MiniMax M2 8bit?

MiniMax M2 8bit requires approximately 223 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 192K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniMax M2 8bit and how large is it?

MiniMax M2 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 228.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate MiniMax M2 8bit?

MiniMax M2 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniMax M2 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 223GB, 192K context

Name: MiniMax M2 8bit
Author: mlx-community

MiniMax M2 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 228.7b LLM, VRAM: 223GB, Context: 192K, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

8-bit 8bit Base model:minimaxai/minimax-m... Base model:quantized:minimaxai... Conversational Minimax Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-8bit

MiniMax M2 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniMax M2 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-8bit
Base Model(s)	MiniMax M2 MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2
Model Size	228.7b
Required VRAM	223 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	minimax
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Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	196608
Model Max Length	196608
Transformers Version	4.46.1
Vocabulary Size	200064

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Best Alternatives to MiniMax M2 8bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
MiniMax M2.7 4bit Mxfp4	192K / 121.5 GB	746	10
MiniMax M2.7 4bit	192K / 128.3 GB	739	2
MiniMax M2.7 3bit	192K / 99.7 GB	319	4
MiniMax M2.7 6bit	192K / 185.8 GB	268	1
MiniMax M2.7 8bit	192K / 228.2 GB	237	1
MiniMax M2.7 5bit	192K / 155.8 GB	189	2
MiniMax M2.7 8bit Gs32	192K / 211.8 GB	66	2
MiniMax M2 Mlx 8bit Gs32	192K / 206.5 GB	14	2
MiniMax M2.1 3bit	192K / 99.7 GB	3529	5
MiniMax M2.1 4bit	192K / 128.3 GB	2484	5

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/MiniMax-M2-8bit.