Cola2 vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

Cola2 20

Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer. Tool-calling format 0, none. Trained tool calling 0, not trained for tool calling. Structured output 0, Nothing about JSON or schema-constrained output. Reasoning control 0, no reasoning mode. Context 0, no context length is stated. 20 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 20.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 70

The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository. The tool-calling format earns 10, since only the template shows the format and the parsers come from vLLM's and SGLang's own docs. Trained tool calling earns 20, with several invoke blocks in one call. Structured output earns nothing, as it isn't documented. Reasoning control earns 10, with reasoning_effort per request on the card and the reasoning in mm:think tags. Context earns 10 for 1,048,576 tokens with no position scaling.

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. Loaded as BF16, as the card's example does, it needs about half, but the line reads the file size. Runtimes 0, none of the six runs it in a released version. Builds 0, one set of weights and no quantised build. Terms 0, no licence for the weights. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it, and nothing names an API that serves it. 15 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 25.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 55

Memory earns nothing. MiniMax's only build is its 250 GB NVFP4 and MXFP8 release, about 300 GB with the fifth added, above 256 GB, and no runtime library has a local build. Runtimes earn 20. llama.cpp from b11861 runs it, Ollama v0.40.14 pins llama.cpp b11963 with the minimax-m3 architecture, vLLM v0.33.0 (tagged 1 November 2026) registers the architecture and meets its recipe's minimum version, and SGLang v0.5.23 (tagged 29 October) registers it with M3.1 processor code and tests, though its cookbook still points to a pull request. Transformers support is in progress per the card and LM Studio has no entry. Builds earn 10 for one publisher precision. Terms earn 10, since commercial use is free with attribution and a notice below $20M of yearly revenue. Download earns 10, with no gate. Hosted earns 5, since MiniMax's API and Novita serve it. 0 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 55.

Cola2 58

Model card 8, Intended use and limitations (the out-of-scope list, and the unconverged latent model) and the architecture are on the card and the GitHub model card it links. Training data 15, the GitHub model card names the source (OLMo 2 pretraining text, retokenised) and the mix by stage with token counts, 346.03B in all. Last change 20, All six commits are from 6 November 2026, four days before this check, the last one updating a checksum in the README. Responsiveness 0, no discussions on the repository, so nobody has asked anything yet and the line reads as none answered, as settled in calibration. Version policy 5, A first release. File health 10, Config, files and card agree: F32 weights, a float32 config and a card that says to load them as bfloat16, with SHA256SUMS to check the download. 8 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 58.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 41

The model card earns 11, missing limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off. Training data earns nothing, as it isn't described. The last change earns 20, an evaluation-results commit of 30 October 2026 after the release commit of 23 October. Responsiveness earns nothing, with no MiniMax reply in nine discussions opened from 23 to 31 October. Version policy earns 5 for a first release in its own repository. File health earns 5, for the tokenizer's 40,960,000-token model_max_length against the 1M context, the Transformers library tag against the card, and an unanswered vLLM streaming report. 11 + 0 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 41.

Cola2 40

File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, the files sit in the ByteDance-Seed organisation, which the ByteDance-Seed GitHub repository for the model links to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results. Agent guidance 5, General cautions in the GitHub model card: not instruction-tuned or safety-aligned, not for use as an assistant, for facts or advice, or for high-impact decisions about people. Licence risk 0, With no licence for the weights there is nothing to hold ByteDance to. Security programme 5, the GitHub repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to ByteDance's security centre and says how they're assessed (5). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 = 40.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 35

File safety earns 15, safetensors only, less 10 because the SGLang route the card links passes trust_remote_code for the repository's configuration and processor code. Provenance earns the full 15, files in the organisation MiniMax links to with a SHA-256 for each shard. Safety evaluation and agent guidance earn nothing; the launch post's security testing measured offensive capability, and the template's root role isn't documented as a trained hierarchy. Licence risk earns 5, after the military-use ban and the $20M threshold. The security programme earns nothing, with no security.txt, disclosure policy or advisories.