When was MiniCPM-SALA released?

MiniCPM-SALA was released on February 11, 2026 by OpenBMB. This is the official MiniCPM-SALA release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is MiniCPM-SALA?

MiniCPM-SALA has 9.5 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created MiniCPM-SALA?

MiniCPM-SALA was created by OpenBMB.

What is the license for MiniCPM-SALA?

MiniCPM-SALA is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Where is the MiniCPM-SALA paper or technical report?

MiniCPM-SALA has a paper or technical report available at https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/docs/MiniCPM_SALA.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare MiniCPM-SALA against?

Common MiniCPM-SALA comparisons include MiniCPM-SALA vs Kimi K2 0905, MiniCPM-SALA vs Phi 4 Reasoning Plus, MiniCPM-SALA vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.

MiniCPM-SALA API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Name: MiniCPM-SALA
Author: OpenBMB

MiniCPM-SALA: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

MiniCPM-SALA is a language model from OpenBMB, released in February 2026.

MiniCPM-SALA (Sparse Attention and Linear Attention) is a 9B hybrid model built from a MiniCPM-4.0 checkpoint via continual training (~2T tokens, 25% of training-from-scratch cost). It interleaves 25% InfLLM-V2 sparse attention and 75%

MiniCPM-SALA benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for MiniCPM-SALA across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How MiniCPM-SALA holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

MiniCPM-SALA Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

llm-stats.com - Fri Aug 28 2026

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MiniCPM-SALA model size

MiniCPM-SALA has 9.5 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters

9.5B

Small (3–10B)

9.5B

1B7B70B405B

MiniCPM-SALA latency

MiniCPM-SALA time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

MiniCPM-SALA examples

Recent arena outputs from MiniCPM-SALA, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

MiniCPM-SALA license

MiniCPM-SALA is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 9.5B parameters.

License: Apache 2.0; Commercial use allowed
Parameters: 9.5B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

MiniCPM-SALA resources

Official sources for MiniCPM-SALA: paper or system card, source repository, model weights.

MiniCPM-SALA vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to MiniCPM-SALA are Kimi K2 0905, Phi 4 Reasoning Plus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.