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Nex-N2.5-mini

A 35B multimodal agent model that serves on two H100s

Nex-N2.5Open weightsGenerally available — open weights on Hugging Face, free hosted access on OpenRouter
Released
8 Sep 2026
Context
262,144 tokens
Parameters
35,107,181,936 total
License
Apache-2.0

Overview

Nex-N2.5-mini is the entry tier of the Nex-N2.5 family Nex AGI published on 8 September 2026, and the cheapest way to run one of these agent models on hardware you control. The Hugging Face weight index totals 35,107,181,936 parameters in BF16 across 16 safetensors shards, and the config declares a `Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration` architecture — a multimodal mixture-of-experts stack built on a Qwen 3.5 base.

Size is the point. Nex AGI documents mini running on a single node with just two H100 GPUs, against eight for Nex-N2.5-Pro and two full nodes of sixteen H200s for Nex-N2.5-Max. It keeps the same 262,144-token context as the larger tiers, so the saving is in GPUs rather than in what the model can hold.

Like Pro, mini is multimodal and shares the family's central idea: vision is a feedback channel, not just an input. The model looks at a screen, a browser or a program it launched, checks the result against the goal, and revises. On OSWorld-G, the grounding benchmark, mini scores 82.9 — behind Pro's 87.4 but ahead of Claude Opus 5 on 76.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol on 77.7 in Nex AGI's published table.

The trade-off is visible on hard coding and knowledge work, where mini drops well behind its siblings: 43.8 on SWE-Bench Pro against 65.7 for Max, and 28.5 on Job Bench against 53.6. It is a model to spend on the many small steps of an agent run rather than on the one hard problem in the middle of it.

Released2026-09-08
LicenseApache-2.0
WeightsOpen weights
Parameters35,107,181,936 total
Context262,144 tokens
Max output262,144 tokens
ArchitectureMultimodal mixture-of-experts (Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration), BF16 weights
ModalitiesText, Vision
StatusGenerally available — open weights on Hugging Face, free hosted access on OpenRouter

Benchmarks

Nex-N2.5-mini against its siblings on Nex AGI's published benchmarks

BenchmarkNex-N2.5-miniNex-N2.5-ProNex-N2.5-Max
Terminal-Bench 2.173.482.786.1
SWE-Bench Pro43.861.265.7
DeepSWE v1.136.155.865.6
AutomationBench v1.0.632.344.250.2
Toolathlon Verified54.668.574.7
BrowseComp83.489.792.6
Job Bench28.541.453.6

Comparison source ↗

This model's scores

  1. OmniDoc89.7%
  2. BrowseComp83.4%
  3. OSWorld-G82.9%
  4. Terminal-Bench 2.173.4%
  5. OSWorld-Verified71.2%
  6. WebArena-Verified63.4%
  7. Toolathlon Verified54.6%
  8. SWE-Bench Pro43.8%

Scores on a 0–100 scale (25-point gridlines); higher is better. Each benchmark links to its published source.

Strengths

  • Serves on a single node with two H100s, the smallest footprint in the Nex-N2.5 family
  • Full 262,144-token context, the same window as the 1.6T Max tier
  • Multimodal grounding that holds up: 82.9 on OSWorld-G, ahead of Claude Opus 5 (76.8) in the published table
  • Apache-2.0 weights published on Hugging Face, with GGUF-free direct BF16 shards and a documented SGLang launch command
  • Free hosted access on OpenRouter as nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free, so it can be tested before any GPU spend

Best for

  • Sub-agent and worker roles inside a larger agent system, where cost per call matters more than peak ability
  • GUI and browser automation on a budget, using the grounding scores rather than a frontier model
  • Self-hosted agent prototypes on a single two-GPU box
  • Long-context document and screen work that would be expensive to send to a hosted frontier API

Nex-N2.5 — every version

The full lineage of the Nex-N2.5 line, newest first. Every version has its own page — click any to compare specs, benchmarks and pricing.

VersionReleasedContextLicense
Nex-N2.5-Maxcurrent2026-09-08262KApache-2.0
Nex-N2.5-Pro2026-09-08262KApache-2.0
Nex-N2.5-mini2026-09-08262KApache-2.0

FAQ

What hardware does Nex-N2.5-mini need?

The Nex-N2.5 README launches Nex-N2.5-mini on a single node with two H100 GPUs and tensor parallelism set to 2, using the prebuilt nexagi/sglang:v0.5.18-nex-patch Docker image. That is the smallest footprint in the family — Nex-N2.5-Pro asks for eight H100s and Nex-N2.5-Max for two nodes of sixteen H200s.

How much smaller is Nex-N2.5-mini than Nex-N2.5-Max?

The gap is about 45-fold. Nex-N2.5-mini's Hugging Face weight index totals 35,107,181,936 parameters, while Nex-N2.5-Max totals 1,600,787,478,430. Both keep the same 262,144-token context, so the difference is in capability and GPU count rather than in how much text either model can hold at once.

Is Nex-N2.5-mini good enough to replace a frontier model?

Not for hard problems. Nex-N2.5-mini scores 43.8 on SWE-Bench Pro and 28.5 on Job Bench, well behind Nex-N2.5-Max on 65.7 and 53.6. It holds up better on visual grounding, where its 82.9 on OSWorld-G beats Claude Opus 5's 76.8, which makes it a reasonable worker model inside a larger system.

Can I try Nex-N2.5-mini without any GPUs?

Yes. OpenRouter serves Nex-N2.5-mini free under the model id nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free with the full 262,144-token context, and ModelScope hosts it too. Requests use the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions format, and the reasoning_effort field selects between no thinking, adaptive thinking and always thinking.