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Atria Dawn Preview vs MiniCPM-SALA

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 14.4.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · OpenBMB · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 14.4, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose MiniCPM-SALA

  • you are already invested in the OpenBMB ecosystem

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
MiniCPM-SALA
OpenBMB
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
14.4
#236
Reasoning
50.5
#12
15.7
#221
Coding
36.2
#22
21.0
#94
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
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Output price
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Context window
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Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 24 for MiniCPM-SALA

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and MiniCPM-SALAdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

734.5B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 734.5B more parameters than MiniCPM-SALA, making it 7750.4% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
OpenBMB
MiniCPM-SALA
9.5Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
9.5B
MiniCPM-SALA

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while MiniCPM-SALA uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

MiniCPM-SALA

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while MiniCPM-SALA was released on 2026-02-11.

Atria Dawn Preview is 7 months newer than MiniCPM-SALA.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

7mo newer
MiniCPM-SALA

Feb 11, 2026

7 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and MiniCPM-SALA side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
✓ Preferred
MiniCPM-SALA
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs MiniCPM-SALA.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or MiniCPM-SALA?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 14.4. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and MiniCPM-SALA is made by OpenBMB. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to MiniCPM-SALA in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. MiniCPM-SALA scores HumanEval: 95.1%, RULER 64k: 92.7%, RULER 128k: 89.4%, MBPP: 89.1%, RULER 512K: 87.1%.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and MiniCPM-SALA?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 14.4), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and MiniCPM-SALA?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and MiniCPM-SALA is developed by OpenBMB.

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