Introduction
SmallThinker is a family of on-device native Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models specially designed for local deployment, co-developed by the IPADS and School of AI at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zenergize AI. Designed from the ground up for resource-constrained environments, SmallThinker brings powerful, private, and low-latency AI directly to your personal devices, without relying on the cloud.
Performance
Note: The model is trained mainly on English.
| Model | MMLU | GPQA-diamond | MATH-500 | IFEVAL | LIVEBENCH | HUMANEVAL | Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmallThinker-21BA3B-Instruct | 84.43 | 55.05 | 82.4 | 85.77 | 60.3 | 89.63 | 76.26 |
| Gemma3-12b-it | 78.52 | 34.85 | 82.4 | 74.68 | 44.5 | 82.93 | 66.31 |
| Qwen3-14B | 84.82 | 50 | 84.6 | 85.21 | 59.5 | 88.41 | 75.42 |
| Qwen3-30BA3B | 85.1 | 44.4 | 84.4 | 84.29 | 58.8 | 90.24 | 74.54 |
| Qwen3-8B | 81.79 | 38.89 | 81.6 | 83.92 | 49.5 | 85.9 | 70.26 |
| Phi-4-14B | 84.58 | 55.45 | 80.2 | 63.22 | 42.4 | 87.2 | 68.84 |
For the MMLU evaluation, we use a 0-shot CoT setting.
All models are evaluated in non-thinking mode.
Speed
| Model | Memory(GiB) | i9 14900 | 1+13 8ge4 | rk3588 (16G) | Raspberry PI 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SmallThinker 21B+sparse | 11.47 | 30.19 | 23.03 | 10.84 | 6.61 |
| SmallThinker 21B+sparse+limited memory | limit 8G | 20.30 | 15.50 | 8.56 | - |
| Qwen3 30B A3B | 16.20 | 33.52 | 20.18 | 9.07 | - |
| Qwen3 30B A3B+limited memory | limit 8G | 10.11 | 0.18 | 6.32 | - |
| Gemma 3n E2B | 1G, theoretically | 36.88 | 27.06 | 12.50 | 6.66 |
| Gemma 3n E4B | 2G, theoretically | 21.93 | 16.58 | 7.37 | 4.01 |
Note: i9 14900, 1+13 8ge4 use 4 threads, others use the number of threads that can achieve the maximum speed. All models here have been quantized to q4_0. You can deploy SmallThinker with offloading support using PowerInfer