# MiniCPM5-2B vs ZAYA1-74B-Preview

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-2B and ZAYA1-74B-Preview across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-zaya1-74b-preview
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick ZAYA1-74B-Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniCPM5-2B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- ZAYA1-74B-Preview leads overall 45 to 44.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA-D in Knowledge, with scores of 70.2% and 57.3%.
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | Zyphra |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 256K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench Airline | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #78/151)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.1% | 65.7% | MiniCPM5-2B |
| SciCode | 26.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.4% | 53.2% | ZAYA1-74B-Preview |
| SWE-bench Pro | 14.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 43.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #114/183)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 70.8% | 68.1% | MiniCPM5-2B |
| MMLU-Redux | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 8.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 70.2% | 57.3% | MiniCPM5-2B |
| SuperGPQA | 40.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 57.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | 86.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-74B-Preview public-lane score: 56.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | ZAYA1-74B-Preview | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 86.5% | 76.4% | MiniCPM5-2B |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniCPM5-2B or ZAYA1-74B-Preview?

ZAYA1-74B-Preview is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does MiniCPM5-2B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-2B currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does ZAYA1-74B-Preview cover on BenchLM?

ZAYA1-74B-Preview currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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