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24 alternatives to MiniCPM-V 4.6

Ultra-efficient 1.3B vision-language model for mobile

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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MiniCPM-V 4.5▲93
GPT-4o level vision model on the phone
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM 4.1▲116
The on-device model for your personal data
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM 4.0▲110
Ultra-efficient on-device AI, now even faster
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM5-1B▲96
A new SOTA for compact open models on the edge
May 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM5-2B▲30
Small enough for the device, built to act
Sep 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work▲915
Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA▲205
Build your own high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA - a smaller version of vLLM - jmaczan/tiny-vllm
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SmolVLM2▲206
Smallest Video LM Ever from HuggingFace
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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GPT-4.1 in the API▲375
Announcing GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, & GPT-4.1 nano in the API
2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax H3▲333
MiniMax H3 is a multimodal AI video generator that turns text, images, video clips, and audio into coherent cinematic videos with native stereo sound. It lets you mix up to 12 references in one pass, maintain character and style consistency, and perform precise instruction-based
Jul 2026 · minimax.io · its alternatives →
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VoxCPM2▲110
Open-source 48kHz TTS with voice design and cloning
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Gan.AI TTS Model & API Playground▲333
First TTS model to support all 22 Indic languages + English
2024 · its alternatives →
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InternVL3▲135
Open MLLMs excelling in vision, reasoning & long context
2025 · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5 Small▲355
0.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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DeepSeek-V4▲387
The open-source era of 1M context intelligence
Apr 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini▲128
The next generation of the Phi family from Microsoft
2025 · azure.microsoft.com · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM-2B Achieving Mistral-7B Performance on Snapdragon 835 SoC▲10
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM▲277
Continual learning model trained from scratch on 8GB VRAM laptop with batch-1 stream of data. - volotat/mini-AGI
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SmolVLA▲139
Powerful robotics VLA that runs on consumer hardware
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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MiniCPM-o 4.5▲12
Real-time, full-duplex multimodal AI on your device
Feb 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Llama▲312
3.1-405B: an open source model to rival GPT-4o / Claude-3.5
2024 · developer.meta.com · its alternatives →
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GPT‑5.4 mini and nano▲267
Fast and efficient models optimized for coding and subagents
Mar 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax M2.5▲194
The first open model to beat Sonnet made for productivity
Feb 2026 · minimax.io · its alternatives →
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GLM-4.5▲298
Unifying agentic capabilities in one open model
2025 · z.ai · its alternatives →

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