# Cola2 vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash (slim)

> MiniMax-M3.1-Flash scores 54.3 (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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MiniMax-M3.1-Flash scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Cola2's 33.9 (F), and leads in 2 of 4 scored categories. Cola2 leads on risk and documentation and upkeep. 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
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash: C 54.3, rank #131 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m3-1-flash.min.md
- Cola2, good for Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study Ahead on Risk, 40 against 35; Documentation and upkeep, 58 against 41.
- MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, good for Teams with a 4 to 8 GPU server who want an open multimodal agent and coding model with 1M tokens of context and can meet the licence's attribution and notice terms. Ahead on Reach, 55 against 25; Agent interface, 70 against 20.

| Category | Cola2 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 55 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 35 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 41 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | MiniMax |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | MiniMax Community License (custom; commercial use needs a "Built with MiniMax M3.1-Flash" line and a one-time notice to MiniMax, and MiniMax's written authorisation above $20M yearly revenue) |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-10-23 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash +50: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 70 (The chat template earns 20 for chat_template.jinja in the repository.)
- Reach, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash +30: 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.); MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 55 (Memory earns nothing.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Cola2 +17: 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 c…); MiniMax-M3.1-Flash 41 (The model card earns 11, missing limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off.)
- Risk, Cola2 +5: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); 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 processo…)