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24 alternatives to MiniMax M2

MiniMax M2 redefines efficiency for agents

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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MiniMax M2.7▲378
Self-evolving AI model powering autonomous agents
Mar 2026 · agent.minimax.io · 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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Maxclaw on Mobile▲138
Build apps, research deeply and automate multi-step tasks
Mar 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B▲124
The open sparse MoE model for agentic coding
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen 1.5 MoE▲100
Highly efficient mixture-of-expert (MoE) model from Alibaba
2024 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Qwen2.5-Max▲59
Large language model series developed by Alibaba Cloud
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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MiniMax▲6
M1 online - try the 1m token reasoning model | minimax ai
2025 · minimaxm1.net · 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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LongCat-2.0▲154
1.6T MoE trained entirely on AI ASICs
Jul 2026 · longcat.chat · 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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Countless.dev▲489
Discover, compare, and choose AI models—100% Free
2024 · countless.dev · its alternatives →
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Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks▲142
2023 · tinyllms.vercel.app · 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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GLM-4.5▲298
Unifying agentic capabilities in one open model
2025 · z.ai · its alternatives →
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Nemotron 3 Ultra by NVIDIA▲179
Powers faster, efficient reasoning for long-running agents
Jun 2026 · developer.nvidia.com · its alternatives →
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MiMo-V2-Flash▲241
Ultra-fast 309B MoE model for coding & agents
Dec 2025 · mimo.xiaomi.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax CLI▲145
Give your AI agents native multimodal capabilities
Apr 2026 · github.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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MiniCPM 4.0▲110
Ultra-efficient on-device AI, now even faster
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax Hub▲78
Desktop AI workstation with agent-driven visual canvas
May 2026 · hub.minimax.io · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲288
The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · 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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MaxHermes by Minimax▲120
AI agent that builds skills from every task you give it
Apr 2026 · x.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-27B▲120
The sweet-spot open dense model for coding agents
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →

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