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🇨🇳 China generalistReleased September 2026

MiniCPM5-2B

OpenBMB
Open-sourceSelf-hostEU hosting Card data 36/100 Trust Index 62
Verdict

A solid pick for self-hosting and full data control.

Overview

2.5B dense parameters (2B non-embedding), 131K context, built for tool calling and sub-agents on local hardware; GGUF, MLX and GPTQ editions available.

Skill profile

Not disclosed

Strengths

  • Open-source and self-hostable

Limitations

  • API pricing not disclosed

Who is it for

A good fit if…
  • you want to control cost or self-host
  • your data must stay in the EU
Skip it if…

    Access & availability

    Self-hostable (open weights)

    Key specifications

    Context
    131K
    Input price
    Output price
    Speed
    Price not auditedBenchmarks not audited

    What it costs per month

    Estimate from sourced API prices and a hardware tier for self-hosting. Assumptions are editable.

    Via API
    API pricing not published
    Self-hosted
    Closed weights: no self-hosting

    Assumptions: 36-month amortisation, 0.25 €/kWh, 22 days/month, 1 $ = 0.92 €. Excludes labour, software licences, redundancy.

    nAIvigate Trust Index

    62/100

    What the vendor offers and documents for professional use in Europe. An undocumented criterion counts as zero and stays visible: the score rises when the vendor publishes, not when we assume.

    14/19 criteria documented · 74 % · 8 of them set by rule

    Data20
    1/5 · 30 %
    Sovereignty67
    3/3 · 20 %
    Transparency75
    4/4 · 15 %
    Enterprise80
    4/5 · 20 %
    Licence100
    2/2 · 15 %
    See the criteria
    Data
    EU data residencyset by rule
    No transfer outside EUset by rulenot documented
    No training on your dataset by rulenot documented
    Configurable retentionset by rulenot documented
    Zero Data Retentionset by rulenot documented
    Sovereignty
    Self-hostable (open weights)
    EU hosting offeredset by rule
    European vendorcountry: CN
    Transparency
    Published licence (URL)
    Public, sourced pricing
    Published compliance commitmentsset by rule
    Subprocessor list publishedset by rule
    Enterprise
    DPA availablenot documented
    SSO / SAMLset by rule
    SCIM provisioningset by rule
    Audit logsset by rule
    SOC 2 / ISO 27001not applicable
    Private endpoint / VPCset by rule
    Licence
    Commercial use allowed
    Licence typeApache-2.0
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    Data & compliance

    What we know, line by line, with source and date. These lines feed the Data and Enterprise families of the Trust Index above. GDPR compliance depends on your processing, not on the model alone.

    EU data residencyYes
    Data processing agreement (DPA)Not documented
    Transfer outside the EUNot documented
    Training on your dataNot documented
    Configurable retentionNot documented
    Zero Data RetentionNot documented
    Self-hostableYes
    Declared hostingself
    Derived from declared hosting, not verified at source.Need an analysis in your context? Shadow AI Sentinel

    Quality of this card’s data

    36/100

    This score measures the quality of the data on this card: price, context, Elo, licence, documented, sourced and fresh. It measures neither the model nor its compliance: for that, see the Trust Index above.

    3/8 documented · 1/8 primary sources

    API pricingopen weights, no API pricingmissing
    Context windowofficial
    Arena Elomissing
    Benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA, SWE-bench…)missing
    LicencenAIvigate assessment
    Data & complianceself-hosted: derivedderived
    Adoption (Hugging Face)missing
    Hardware requirements (quantizations)computed from model sizemissing

    Run it locally

    Runs on a laptop

    Deploy

    Copy-ready commands generated from this card. Adjust context length and GPU count to your hardware.

    OpenAI-compatible server for production on NVIDIA GPUs.

    pip install vllm
    vllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B \
      --max-model-len 32768 \
      --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
      --dtype auto
    openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B
    Advanced data · for experts
    Architecture, modalities, detailed cost, full benchmarks
    Architecture
    Size
    2.5B
    Cutoff date
    Inputs
    text
    Outputs
    text
    License
    Apache-2.0
    Hosting
    self
    Hallucination score
    Estimated cost (API)
    Typical exchange (~3k in / 1k out)
    Not disclosed
    1M in + 1M out
    Not disclosed
    All benchmarks
    Arena Elo
    MMLU
    GPQA
    HumanEval
    SWE-Bench
    MATH

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