Best Local MiniMax Models

The best local LLMs — open-weight models small enough to run on your own hardware with Ollama, llama.cpp or vLLM — ranked by intelligence. Frontier-scale open models (400B+) are excluded: downloadable isn't the same as runnable. Every model here is on Hugging Face.

1. 1
   minimax-m3

   ReasoningToolsJSON+144.4 intel · $0.300/M · 1.0M ctx
   44.4

   Intelligence
2. 2
   minimax-m2.7

   ReasoningToolsJSON38.1 intel · $0.250/M · 205K ctx
   38.1

   Intelligence
3. 3
   minimax-m2.5

   ReasoningToolsJSON33.7 intel · $0.150/M · 205K ctx
   33.7

   Intelligence
4. 4
   minimax-m2.1

   ReasoningToolsJSON31.4 intel · $0.300/M · 205K ctx
   31.4

   Intelligence
5. 5
   minimax-m2

   ReasoningToolsJSON28.3 intel · $0.255/M · 205K ctx
   28.3

   Intelligence