Alternatives to MiniCPM5-2B

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Alternatives

Qwen3.8-27B: larger dense local chat.
GLM-5.3-Flash: hosted fast coding SKU.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: MIT MoE agent model, not on-device 2B.

Qwen3.8-27B

Alibaba's open-weight 27B dense companion to Qwen3.8-Max: Apache 2.0 license, multimodal image-text input, built for local deployment and small-batch inference.

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20000000DR: 90AS: 95

GLM-5.3-Flash

Models

Zhipu's first natively multimodal GLM (confirmed as the 'Ox Alpha' stealth model): 320B MoE with 18B active, 1M context, MIT open weights at $0.15/M input.

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—DR: —AS: —

DeepSeek V4 Flash

Models

DeepSeek small agent model: 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT weights, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

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45000000DR: 95AS: 88