MiniCPM-V 4.5 is a new 8B open-source MLLM that delivers GPT-4o level performance on your phone. It excels at image, video, and document understanding, beating top proprietary models on key benchmarks like OCRBench.
While on-device models still have a way to go to catch up with the cloud, the progress recently has been incredibly fast. The promise has always been about bringing powerful capabilities locally, and MiniCPM-V 4.5 is a huge step in that direction.
It's an 8B open-source multimodal model that is outperforming giants like GPT-4o and Gemini Pro on major vision benchmarks.
Its efficiency and accessibility are awesome. It has great OCR and video understanding, and it's easy to run with tools like Ollama and llama.cpp. This is a very powerful new option for building on the edge.
MiniCPM-V 4.5 launched on Product Hunt on August 26th, 2025 and earned 93 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #22 on the daily leaderboard. MiniCPM-V 4.5 is a new 8B open-source MLLM that delivers GPT-4o level performance on your phone. It excels at image, video, and document understanding, beating top proprietary models on key benchmarks like OCRBench.
On the analytics side, MiniCPM-V 4.5 competes within Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and Development — topics that collectively have 540.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how MiniCPM-V 4.5 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted MiniCPM-V 4.5?
MiniCPM-V 4.5 was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of MiniCPM-V 4.5 including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Zac Zuo
Hi everyone!
While on-device models still have a way to go to catch up with the cloud, the progress recently has been incredibly fast. The promise has always been about bringing powerful capabilities locally, and MiniCPM-V 4.5 is a huge step in that direction.
It's an 8B open-source multimodal model that is outperforming giants like GPT-4o and Gemini Pro on major vision benchmarks.
Its efficiency and accessibility are awesome. It has great OCR and video understanding, and it's easy to run with tools like Ollama and llama.cpp. This is a very powerful new option for building on the edge.
Try this model here on Gradio.