Nex AGI releases Nex-N2-Mini: open-source agentic MoE model with 262K context window
Nex AGI has released Nex-N2-Mini, an open-source agentic mixture-of-experts model with a 262K-token context window. The model accepts text and image inputs and is priced at $0.025 per 1M input tokens and $0.10 per 1M output tokens.
Nex-N2-Mini — Quick Specs
Nex AGI releases Nex-N2-Mini: open-source agentic MoE model with 262K context window
Nex AGI has released Nex-N2-Mini, an open-source agentic mixture-of-experts model with a 262K-token context window, now available through OpenRouter.
Specifications
The model is priced at $0.025 per 1M input tokens and $0.10 per 1M output tokens. It accepts both text and image inputs and produces text output, making it a multimodal model.
Nex-N2-Mini is described as the "smaller sibling in the Nex-N2 series," indicating a larger model exists or is planned in the same family.
Capabilities
According to Nex AGI, the model is built for:
- Coding tasks
- Tool use
- Deep research
- Long-horizon agentic workflows
- Native reasoning support
The 262K-token context window places it among models with extended context capabilities, though below the largest available windows from providers like Anthropic (Claude with 200K standard) and Google (Gemini 1.5 Pro with 2M tokens).
Architecture
The model uses a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, a design pattern that activates only subsets of parameters for each inference, potentially improving efficiency compared to dense models of similar capability.
Nex AGI has made the model weights available as open-source, allowing researchers and developers to download and deploy the model independently.
Availability
The model is currently hosted exclusively through OpenRouter, which forwards requests directly to the provider without routing decisions. OpenRouter reports that prompt caching can reduce effective costs by 60-80% below list prices for workloads with repeated context.
The official release date is listed as June 24, 2026, though this appears to be an error in the source data given the current date.
What this means
Nex-N2-Mini enters a competitive space for coding and agentic models, with its 262K context window and MoE architecture potentially offering cost-performance advantages for long-context tasks. The open-source release allows developers to self-host, though the lack of disclosed benchmark scores makes direct capability comparisons difficult. The pricing sits in the mid-range: cheaper than frontier models like GPT-4 but more expensive than some open models. Whether the model delivers on its claimed agentic capabilities will depend on independent testing and real-world usage data.
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