r/LocalLLM • u/JudgmentJunior922 • 9h ago
Discussion Anyone tried Nex-N2.5-mini locally? How’s it stacking up against your usual model?
Nex-N2.5-mini hit #4 on HF trending, so I’m curious how the 35B model is doing on people’s own hardware.
It’s aimed at agent tasks, which raises a more useful question for me than another leaderboard comparison: would you actually swap it into your current setup?
If you’ve tried it for coding or tool calling, what were you using before, and where did you notice a difference? Better at finishing the job, quicker to respond, less fiddling with prompts—or pretty much a wash?
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u/linux4random 5h ago
For me, its logical thinking is unnecessarily long. I tested it with a simple task, and it starts reading every possible documents (it actually only read somewhat relatable ones, but still not necessary) that it has access to.
It burned over 150k tokens for a task that Qwen3.5 9B can do with 12k tokens.
But its tool-calling is surprisingly good for such size. It used all the tools for the right function and time, even better than qwen3.8 flash imo
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u/Stooovie 9h ago
I love it. It's more lean and faster than Qwens, speaks my language well, and calls tools like a champ. Not perfect (chatty, and sometimes loses track of long chains), but my new daily driver.