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Nex N2.5 Mini
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OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALFREE TO TRYSMALLCODING HELPQUICK ANSWERS
RANKED #209 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #317 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.7 · 5,865 VOICES ·
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A free, lightweight model designed to help with coding and quick answers.
HAPPY7.5
8 mentions
SAD7.5
8 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 5,864 voices in this window
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
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 Nex N2.5 Mini once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
35B parameters (MoE with ~3B active), a Q4_K_M GGUF is about 20 GB to 22 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB system RAM
12 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM
~$260 USEDQ4_K_M offloaded across VRAM and RAM, ~12 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24GB
24 GB VRAM
~$700 USEDQ4_K_M fully in VRAM, ~55 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
Apple Mac Studio M2 Ultra
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3400 USEDFP16 or Q8_0 with full 262k context window, ~40 tok/s
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN NEX N2.5 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 Nex N2.5 Mini takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNvidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB plus 32GB system RAM | SWEET SPOTNvidia GeForce RTX 3090 24GB | FULL POWERApple Mac Studio M2 Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~42 S★★★★★ | ~9 S★★★★★ | ~13 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~2.1 MIN★★★★★ | ~27 S★★★★★ | ~38 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~2.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~35 MIN★★★★★ | ~7.6 MIN★★★★★ | ~10 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~4.5 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.3 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
The community mostly relies on Nex N2.5 Mini for coding help, with no major complaints recorded.
483 POSTS · 5382 COMMENTS · GITHUB · REDDIT · BLUESKY
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
3 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2015-07-25 · 7 UPVOTESCan you help me troubleshoot my neural network?
Can you help me troubleshoot my neural network?
- REDDIT · 2026-09-10 · 7 UPVOTESComment in r/singularity
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- REDDIT · 2026-09-10 · 0 UPVOTESI trained a 348M model trained from scratch on 22.7B tokens that does 14 digit arithmetic [P]
I trained a 348M model trained from scratch on 22.7B tokens that does 14 digit arithmetic [P]
- GITHUB · 2026-09-23 · 0 UPVOTES[NA] [BE][FE] chore: sync provider model definitions
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