# Cola2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (slim)

> Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores 67.6 (B) 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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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores 67.6 (B) 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
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: B 67.6, rank #12 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b.min.md
- Cola2, good for Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, good for Agents with a 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a quick tool-calling and reasoning cousin with very long context. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 25; Risk, 60 against 40; Agent interface, 90 against 20; Documentation and upkeep, 80 against 58.

| Category | Cola2 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 90 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | NVIDIA |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License (custom, Apache-style, commercial use allowed, not an OSI licence) |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-08-24 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-12-15 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +70: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 90 (The chat template earns 20 as a Jinja file in the repository.)
- Reach, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +65: 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.); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 90 (Memory earns 25 because the smallest 4-bit build is Ollama's NVFP4 MLX build at 18 GB, 21.6 GB with the fifth added, and NVIDIA's own NVFP4 build lands in the s…)
- Documentation and upkeep, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +22: 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…); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 80 (The model card earns 20, with all seven items on the card and its subcards.)
- Risk, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +20: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 60 (File safety earns 15, safetensors only but with the documented serving path passing trust-remote-code and loading a reasoning parser file from the repository.)