# Cola2 vs North Mini Code 1.0 (slim)

> North Mini Code 1.0 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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North Mini Code 1.0 scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Cola2's 33.9 (F), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Cola2 leads on 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
- 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
- Cola2, good for Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study Ahead on Documentation and upkeep, 58 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 Reach, 85 against 25; Risk, 60 against 40; Agent interface, 85 against 20.

| Category | Cola2 | North Mini Code 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 36 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | North Mini Code 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | Cohere |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-07-29 |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, North Mini Code 1.0 +65: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); North Mini Code 1.0 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,397 characters).)
- Reach, North Mini Code 1.0 +60: 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.); 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.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Cola2 +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…); North Mini Code 1.0 36 (Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card.)
- Risk, North Mini Code 1.0 +20: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); North Mini Code 1.0 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)