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Trinity-Mini

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Trinity-Mini is an open-weight language model from arcee-ai. Trinity-Mini-NVFP4 (NVFP4) weighs 17.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Trinity-Mini is a 26.1B parameter model developed by arcee-ai for text generation and reasoning tasks.
  • It features a context length of 131,072 tokens and supports languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic.
  • The model is released under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

Summary of the arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.

What it is

Released byarcee-ai
Released2025-12-01
Parameters26.1B
VRAM17.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Trinity-Mini-NVFP4 (NVFP4)

17.1 GBweights, file size
16 MBcache per 1K tokens
302 MBwindow cache per request
1.2 GBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
———
RTX 3090 24 GB
FP4 without its speed-up here
115all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB
FP4 without its speed-up here
115all 128K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB2815all 128K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB
FP4 without its speed-up here
5830all 128K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB
FP4 without its speed-up here
13771all 128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB
FP4 without its speed-up here
9937all 128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB12847all 128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified15457all 128K107 GB
H200 141 GB
FP4 without its speed-up here
21178all 128K138 GB
B200 180 GB27769all 128K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel · FP4 without its speed-up here
84all 128K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel · FP4 without its speed-up here
2513all 128K15.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
118.8 GB19.2 GB
520.6 GB22.6 GB
821.9 GB25.1 GB
1625.4 GB31.8 GB
3232.3 GB45.2 GB
6446.3 GB72.1 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

Builds

Sizes, precisions & builds

BuildParamsPrecisionWeightsSmallest setup
Trinity-Mini ↗ 26.1BBF16 52.2 GB2× RTX 5090 32 GB
Trinity-Mini-NVFP4 (above) ↗ 13.9BNVFP4 17.1 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB
Trinity-Mini-W4A16 ↗ 4.9BINT4 16.0 GB2× RTX 3060 12 GB

From the model card

What arcee-ai says about Trinity-Mini

Read the model card

src="https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6435718aaaef013d1aec3b8b/i-v1KyAMOW_mgVGeic9WJ.png" alt="Arcee Trinity Mini" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" >

Trinity Mini

Trinity Mini is an Arcee AI 26B MoE model with 3B active parameters. It is the medium-sized model in our new Trinity family, a series of open-weight models for enterprise and tinkerers alike.

This model is tuned for reasoning, but in testing, it uses a similar total token count to competitive instruction-tuned models.


Trinity Mini is trained on 10T tokens gathered and curated through a key partnership with Datology, building upon the excellent dataset we used on AFM-4.5B with additional math and code.

Training was performed on a cluster of 512 H200 GPUs powered by Prime Intellect using HSDP parallelism.

More details, including key architecture decisions, can be found on our blog here

Try it out now at chat.arcee.ai


Model Details

  • Model Architecture: AfmoeForCausalLM
  • Parameters: 26B, 3B active
  • Experts: 128 total, 8 active, 1 shared
  • Context length: 128k
  • Training Tokens: 10T
  • License: OpenMDW-1.1
  • Recommended settings:
    • temperature: 0.15
    • top_k: 50
    • top_p: 0.75
    • min_p: 0.06

Benchmarks

Running our model

Transformers

Use the main transformers branch

git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
cd transformers

# pip
pip install '.[torch]'

# uv
uv pip install '.[torch]'
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_id = "arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto"
)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]

input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    return_tensors="pt"
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(
    input_ids,
    max_new_tokens=256,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.5,
    top_k=50,
    top_p=0.95
)

response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

If using a released transformers, simply pass "trust_remote_code=True":

model_id = "arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
    trust_remote_code=True
)

VLLM

Supported in VLLM release 0.11.1

# pip
pip install "vllm>=0.11.1"

Serving the model with suggested settings:

vllm serve arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini \
  --dtype bfloat16 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --reasoning-parser deepseek_r1 \
  --tool-call-parser hermes

llama.cpp

Supported in llama.cpp release b7061

Download the latest llama.cpp release

llama-server -hf arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini-GGUF:q4_k_m \
  --temp 0.15 \
  --top-k 50 \
  --top-p 0.75
  --min-p 0.06

LM Studio

Supported in latest LM Studio runtime

Update to latest available, then verify your runtime by:

  1. Click "Power User" at the bottom left
  2. Click the green "Developer" icon at the top left
  3. Select "LM Runtimes" at the top
  4. Refresh the list of runtimes and verify that the latest is installed

Then, go to Model Search and search for arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini-GGUF, download your prefered size, and load it up in the chat

API

Trinity Mini is available today on openrouter:

https://openrouter.ai/arcee-ai/trinity-mini

curl -X POST "https://openrouter.ai/v1/chat/completions" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "arcee-ai/trinity-mini",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "What are some fun things to do in New York?"
      }
    ]
  }'

License

Trinity-Mini is released under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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