# Cola2 vs Darwin-36B-Opus (slim)

> Darwin-36B-Opus scores 61 (C) to Cola2's 33.9 (F) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Darwin-36B-Opus scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Cola2's 33.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Cola2: F 33.9, rank #160 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.min.md
- Darwin-36B-Opus: C 61, rank #43 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/darwin-36b-opus.min.md
- Cola2, good for Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study
- Darwin-36B-Opus, good for Reasoning-heavy text tasks on a 32 GB machine or a single 80 GB GPU, where a disclosed training method isn't required Ahead on Reach, 80 against 25; Risk, 55 against 40; Agent interface, 70 against 20.

| Category | Cola2 | Darwin-36B-Opus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 80 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | Darwin-36B-Opus |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | FINAL-Bench (VIDRAFT) |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-04-23 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Darwin-36B-Opus +55: Cola2 25 (Memory 15, the only build is the F32 safetensors set, 35.07 GB, and 35.07 GB × 1.2 = 42.1 GB, within 64 GB.); Darwin-36B-Opus 80 (Memory 20, the publisher's Q4_K_M GGUF is 21.2 GB and needs about 25.4 GB with the fifth added, so 32 GB.)
- Agent interface, Darwin-36B-Opus +50: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); Darwin-36B-Opus 70 (Chat template 20, Qwen3.6's Jinja template in the repository.)
- Risk, Darwin-36B-Opus +15: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Darwin-36B-Opus 55 (File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only with no code in the repository, so the card's trust_remote_code flag loads nothing extra.)