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Nex N2.5 Mini (free)
★ LIVE◆ OPEN
by Nex Agi
JUST LANDED · UPDATING HOURLY
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPILONG CONTEXTFREE TO TRYCLOSED
RANKED #257 OF 278 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #403 OF 6,579 · VIBE SCORE 5.1 · 9 VOICES
Nex-N2.5 is an agentic model built to turn goals into working, verified outcomes. Its core strength is agentic coding within a visual feedback loop: it can explore codebases, implement multi-file...
HAPPY5.1
11 mentions
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0 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,689 voices
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 Nex N2.5 Mini (free) 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 (FREE)?
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 (free) 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
Not enough discussion about Nex N2.5 Mini (free) yet to call it. We found 9 posts but people did not say much either way.
8 POSTS · 1 COMMENTS · REDDIT
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- No complaints yet. The internet is still looking for one. Suspicious.
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Other models the crowd has fully reviewed, starting with text models like this one.
Qwen3.8 27B
DeepSeek V4 Flash> SOURCES (11)
- REDDIT · 2015-07-25 · 7 UPVOTESCan you help me troubleshoot my neural network?
Can you help me troubleshoot my neural network?
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 2 UPVOTESChatGPT 2 years ago
ChatGPT 2 years ago
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 2 UPVOTESOpenAI's Internal Model Math Benchmark
OpenAI's Internal Model Math Benchmark
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 2 UPVOTESI'm feeling it.
I'm feeling it.
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 2 UPVOTESIt's really good
It's really good
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 2 UPVOTESComment in r/MachineLearning
Comment in r/MachineLearning
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 1 UPVOTESWho needs emulation? With Astra, you can decompile an SNES ROM image to a standalone game with readable source code
Who needs emulation? With Astra, you can decompile an SNES ROM image to a standalone game with readable source code
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 1 UPVOTESOpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say [R]
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say [R]
- REDDIT · 2026-09-08 · 1 UPVOTESnex-agi/Nex-N2.5-mini - 35b
nex-agi/Nex-N2.5-mini - 35b
- REDDIT · 2026-09-09 · 1 UPVOTESQwen3.6 35B A3B or Nex-N2.5-mini?
I am getting a hard time trying to compare the two models, so I am asking it here. For coding, which one should I use? I currently use Qwen3.6 35B A3B UD-Q5_K_XL with MTP and I wish it was a little better
- GITHUB · 2026-09-09 · 0 UPVOTESfeat: add support for GPT Image 2.5, GPT-6 Astra, and September 2026 models
Summary Conducts an official 7-day model census (Sept 2 – Sept 9, 2026) across all 37 configured providers and adds exact-ID support across catalog records, adapters, capability registry, settings resolvers, provider seeds, and test suites. New Models…