What are the hardware requirements for MiniCPM4 8B?

MiniCPM4 8B requires approximately 16.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniCPM4 8B and how large is it?

MiniCPM4 8B is developed by openbmb, a model with 8b 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 MiniCPM4 8B?

MiniCPM4 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniCPM4 8B by openbmb — VRAM 16.4GB, 32K context

Name: MiniCPM4 8B
Author: openbmb

MiniCPM4 8B is an open-source language model by openbmb. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

Arxiv:2506.07900 Conversational Custom code En Minicpm Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B

MiniCPM4 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniCPM4 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	openbmb
Model Type	minicpm
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 4.9 GB: 3-of-4 1.7 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	zh en
Model Architecture	MiniCPMForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.56.1
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Vocabulary Size	73448
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to MiniCPM4 8B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
MiniCPM4.1 8B	64K / 16.3 GB	104569	391
BitCPM CANN 8B	32K / 16.4 GB	1626	102
MiniCPM4 8B Eagle VLLM	32K / 2.3 GB	107	10
MiniCPM4 8B Marlin VLLM	32K / 5.2 GB	76	7
MiniCPM4 8B Marlin Cpmcu	32K / 5.1 GB	70	8
MiniCPM4 Survey	32K / 16.5 GB	55	14
MiniCPM4 8B Eagle FRSpec	32K / 0 GB	57	9

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B.