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Cactus Needle 2 vs FinGPT
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | ||
| Family | Needle | FinGPT |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Feb 2023 |
| Context Window | 256 tokens | 4K tokens |
| Input Price | Free | Free |
| Output Price | Free | Free |
| Pricing Notes | Apache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing. | Open-source model family; runtime, hosting, and inference infrastructure costs depend on deployment. |
| Capabilities | tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline | textfinance-nlpsentiment-analysiscoderesearch |
| Training Cutoff | — | Varies by released checkpoint |
| Max Output | 256 tokens | 2K tokens |
| API Identifier | Cactus-Compute/needle2 | AI4Finance-Foundation/FinGPT |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match | 63.7cactus-compute | — |
| BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall | 42.6cactus-compute | — |
| View Cactus Needle 2 | View FinGPT | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
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| Cactus Needle 2Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| FinGPTCheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
Cactus Compute
Cactus Needle 2
Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.
AI4Finance Foundation
FinGPT
FinGPT is an open-source financial large language model project from AI4Finance Foundation. It focuses on finance-specific NLP, sentiment analysis, robo-advisor workflows, technical analysis, and model release workflows through GitHub and Hugging Face.
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