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Trinity Mini
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by Clarifai
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALSMALLCODING HELPPROBLEM SOLVING
RANKED #317 OF 318 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #492 OF 495 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 4.3 · 2,724 VOICES ·
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A lightweight model designed to help with coding and daily problem solving.
HAPPY5.4
1 mentions
SAD9.6
1 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 2,726 voices in this window
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Trinity Mini once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
26B total parameters (3B active MoE), a Q4 file is about 15.8 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (with 16GB system RAM offload)
16 GB VRAM
~$450 USEDQ4_K_M or IQ4_XS quant fully loaded in VRAM, ~28 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ5_K_M or Q6_K quant with room for full 32k to 64k context, ~65 tok/s
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 64GB RAM) or dual RTX 3090 24GB
48 GB TO 64 GB UNIFIED MEMORY / VRAM
~$1400 USEDBF16 unquantized or Q8_0 quant, full 128k context window, ~80 tok/s
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN TRINITY MINI?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Trinity Mini takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB (with 16GB system RAM offload) | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 64GB RAM) or dual RTX 3090 24GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~18 S★★★★★ | ~8 S★★★★★ | ~6 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~54 S★★★★★ | ~23 S★★★★★ | ~19 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~4.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.7 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~15 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.2 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.1 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Trinity Mini is popular for helping with coding tasks. However, users mention that it can sometimes make things up.
170 POSTS · 2554 COMMENTS · REDDIT · BLOG · LEMMY
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT MORE
- Sometimes makes things up (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 1 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE? SEE ALL
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Trinity Mini.
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LFM2.5 24B A2B> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-18 · 120 UPVOTESQwen 3.8 27B's existence raises questions
Qwen 3.8 27B's existence raises questions
- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 62 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
Comment in r/singularity
- REDDIT · 2025-12-01 · 49 UPVOTESArcee just launched "Trinity": a 26B model that runs like 3B (open-weight MoE)
Arcee just launched "Trinity": a 26B model that runs like 3B (open-weight MoE)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 43 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 39 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 35 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- BLOG · 2026-02-25 · 32 UPVOTESA Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026
If you have struggled a bit to keep up with open-weight model releases this month, this article should catch you up on the main themes. In this article, I will walk you through the ten main releases in chronological order, with a focus on the architecture…
- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 30 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 25 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-17 · 21 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-18 · 16 UPVOTESHow to optimise local AI for lots of RAM but not a lot of VRAM?
How to optimise local AI for lots of RAM but not a lot of VRAM?
- REDDIT · 2026-02-24 · 0 UPVOTESWe're heading into the dark ages in terms of free proxies aren't we? (Openrouter)
We're heading into the dark ages in terms of free proxies aren't we? (Openrouter)