MiniCPM-V-4.6 How much memory it needs, what its licence allows, and whether it fits an office box.
Short answer. MiniCPM-V-4.6 needs about 2.3 GB of memory at 4-bit, 3.0 GB at 8-bit and 4.2 GB at full 16-bit precision, including runtime overhead and an 8,192-token KV cache. It has about 1.3 billion parameters and a 262,144-token context window. Licence in short: commercial use allowed. By memory alone, on ANVE’s launch configurations: ANVE One fits at BF16, ANVE Office fits at BF16, ANVE Office Pro (GPU) fits at BF16. These are estimates from its published size, not benchmarks.
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What it is
MiniCPM-V-4.6 is a vision-language model: it reads images (scanned pages, photos, charts and screenshots) as well as text, published by OpenBMB on Hugging Face on 13 April 2026. It has about 1.3 billion parameters and a configured context window of 262,144 tokens.
Its card lists the licence as Apache 2.0. In short, the licence allows commercial use, modification and redistribution, with attribution and a copy of the licence, and includes a patent grant.
Hugging Face counted about 236,073 downloads of it in the 30 days before we checked (7 Oct 2026), and 1,228 people have liked it there.
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How much memory it needs
How these figures are worked out: weights = parameters × bits per weight ÷ 8. The KV cache is added for 8,192 tokens of context, plus about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. Treat the totals as planning estimates.
Each token of context adds about 0.01 MB of KV cache at 16-bit, so 32,768 tokens would add about 0.40 GB. Only 6 of its 24 layers use standard attention; the others keep a small fixed state, so the cache is smaller than in a classic transformer.
Precision
Weights
KV cache (8,192 tokens)
Total, estimated
BF16 (full precision)
2.6 GB
0.10 GB
4.2 GB
8-bit (Q8_0)
1.4 GB
0.10 GB
3.0 GB
4-bit (Q4_K)
0.73 GB
0.10 GB
2.3 GB
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Architecture at a glance
Setting
Value in config.json
Architecture class
MiniCPMV4_6ForConditionalGeneration
Model type
minicpmv4_6
Layers
24
Hidden size
1,024
Attention heads
8
Key-value heads
2 (grouped-query attention)
Head size
256
Vocabulary
248,094
Configured context
262,144
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Will it fit on ANVE?
Arithmetic against the launch specification, not a test: about three quarters of ANVE One’s 64 GB of unified memory for the model (as AMD’s Variable Graphics Memory allows), and the 24 GB on the graphics card in ANVE Office and ANVE Office Pro, which keep the rest of the stack in 64 GB and 128 GB of system memory. ANVE’s tested default is Qwen 3.8 27B; this model is not yet validated on ANVE.
Configuration (at launch)
Memory for the model
Verdict
ANVE One
about 48 GB of 64 GB unified memory
fits at BF16
ANVE Office
24 GB on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF Edition
fits at BF16
ANVE Office Pro (GPU)
24 GB on the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell
fits at BF16
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What an office would use it for
Models this small are best for routing, classification, autocomplete and simple extraction. They are not reliable for minutes or legal drafting: ANVE never uses anything smaller than a 4B-class model for minutes.
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Variants with the same size
MiniCPM-V-4.6-Thinking: a reasoning variant that thinks before it answers (same parameter count, so the memory figures above apply).
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Similar models to compare
LFM2-VL-1.6B (1.6B parameters, about 2.4 GB at 4-bit before context; custom licence: check before commercial use)
InternVL3_5-1B (1.1B parameters, about 2.1 GB at 4-bit before context; commercial use allowed)
LFM2.5-VL-1.6B (1.6B parameters, about 2.4 GB at 4-bit before context; custom licence: check before commercial use)
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Questions people ask
How much memory does MiniCPM-V-4.6 need?
About 2.3 GB at 4-bit, 3.0 GB at 8-bit and 4.2 GB at full 16-bit precision, including an 8,192-token KV cache and about 1.5 GB of runtime overhead. These are estimates from its parameter count.
Can MiniCPM-V-4.6 run on a 24 GB graphics card?
Yes, at BF16 by this estimate, with room left for context.
Is MiniCPM-V-4.6 free for commercial use?
Its card lists Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use, modification and redistribution, with attribution and a copy of the licence, and includes a patent grant. Read the licence itself before relying on this summary; it is not legal advice.
What is MiniCPM-V-4.6’s context window?
Its configuration sets 262,144 tokens. Longer contexts need more memory for the KV cache, so the practical limit on a given machine can be lower.
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What is not real yet
No sealed ANVE unit exists; every image of the appliance on this site is a labelled render. The software runs today on a development machine. No customers yet, no certifications, no delivery date, and the final price is not announced.
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