# Carbon-X vs North Mini Code 1.0 (slim)

> Carbon-X and North Mini Code 1.0 score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Carbon-X and North Mini Code 1.0 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). North Mini Code 1.0 leads on agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Carbon-X: C 61, rank #42 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.min.md
- North Mini Code 1.0: C 61, rank #80 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/north-mini-code-1-0.min.md
- Carbon-X, good for Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 85; Risk, 65 against 60; Documentation and upkeep, 72 against 36.
- North Mini Code 1.0, good for Developers who want a coding agent on their own GPU with a permissive licence Ahead on Agent interface, 85 against 35.

| Category | Carbon-X | North Mini Code 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 65 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 35 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 72 | 36 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Carbon-X | North Mini Code 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio) | Cohere |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-07-29 |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, North Mini Code 1.0 +50: Carbon-X 35 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); North Mini Code 1.0 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,397 characters).)
- Documentation and upkeep, Carbon-X +36: Carbon-X 72 (Model card 17, everything but a knowledge cut-off.); North Mini Code 1.0 36 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.)
- Reach, Carbon-X +5: Carbon-X 90 (Memory 30, the publisher's Q4_K_M GGUF is 9.6 GB, or 11.6 GB with a fifth added.); North Mini Code 1.0 85 (Memory 25, the smallest build from Cohere is the w4a16 repository, 19.38 GB, and 19.38 GB × 1.2 = 23.3 GB, within 24 GB.)
- Risk, Carbon-X +5: Carbon-X 65 (File safety 15, safetensors and GGUF only, but the documented loading path runs the repository's tokenizer.py through trust_remote_code.); North Mini Code 1.0 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)