// MiniMax · Vision-language
MiniMax-VL-01: VRAM & local deployment
456.4B (MoE) parameters. About 305 GB at 4-bit and 1.00 TB at BF16 with one 8K-token request.
released 2025-01-12licence: Licence not statedmemory figures are estimates
01Specs
| Publisher | MiniMax · MiniMaxAI |
|---|---|
| Family / series | MiniMax · MiniMax-VL-01 |
| Type | Vision-language (image-text-to-text) |
| Parameters | 456.4B (MoE) Source: counted from official safetensors weights |
| Context length | 8K tokens (8,192)max_position_embeddings in config.json |
| Architecture | 80 layers (10 full-attention) · GQA+HYBRID · MoE |
| Released weights | BF16 · 915 GBdownload |
| Licence | — · Licence not statedThe model card metadata does not state a licence; check the repository files. |
| Released | 2025-01-12 (Hugging Face repo created) |
02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)
Total = weights + 10% + 0.5GB overhead + KV cache for one request (FP16 KV). More concurrent users multiply the KV column.
| Precision | Weights | Total @ 8K | Smallest GPU | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 (original) | 913 GB | 1.00 TB | 8 × H200 (1,128GB) | — |
| FP8 / INT8 / Q8_0 | 485 GB | 534 GB | 8 × H100 (640GB) | — |
| 4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4) | 277 GB | 305 GB | 4 × RTX PRO 6000 (384GB) | Mac 512GB |
KV cache per request: 8K 0.3 GB
Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →
03How to run it
Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.
- vLLM — mentioned in the official model card
- Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
04Official repositories & quantised builds
1 official repo(s) from MiniMaxAI.
- MiniMax-VL-01 main
05Other MiniMax models
All 11 →| Model | Params | 4-bit total | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax-Music3 | 2.43B | 2.1 GB | 2026-08-07 |
| MiniMax-H3 | 33.1B | 22.6 GB | 2026-07-28 |
| MiniMax-M3 | 428B / 23B | 286 GB | 2026-06-02 |
| MiniMax-M2.7 | 228.7B | 155 GB | 2026-04-09 |
| MiniMax-M2.5 | 228.7B | 155 GB | 2026-02-12 |
| MiniMax-M2.1 | 228.7B | 155 GB | 2025-12-20 |
| MiniMax-M2 | 230B / 10B | 156 GB | 2025-10-22 |
| MiniMax-M1-80k | 456B / 45.9B | 305 GB | 2025-06-13 |
06Sources
Data checked 2025-07-03. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.