# MiniCPM5-1B vs Sage-A1.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-1B and Sage-A1.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-1b-vs-sage-a1-5
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: MiniCPM5-1B and Sage-A1.5 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Sage-A1.5 has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | InternScience |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 5.68 | 62.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 12 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 57.7 (Estimated · #36/132)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 25.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GAIA | Coming soon | 95.1% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.4% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 54 (Estimated · #34/153)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 22.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 33.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 61.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 80.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 71.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 20.0% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 9.7 (Estimated · #187/187)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 48.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 70.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 26.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 23.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierScience Research | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 9.7 (#146/152)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 91.9 (#22/152)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 46.7% | 81.6% | Sage-A1.5 |
| IFEval | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- MiniCPM5-1B public-lane score: 12.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-1B | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 40.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 40.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 25.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between MiniCPM5-1B and Sage-A1.5?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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