# Cola2 vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct (slim)

> Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct scores 55.7 (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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Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct scores 55.7 (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
- Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct: C 55.7, rank #119 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.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 31.
- Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct, good for Coding agents and local coding tools that want an open model on one 24 GB GPU or a 32 GB Mac, with a plain licence. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 25; Risk, 55 against 40; Agent interface, 75 against 20.

| Category | Cola2 | Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 75 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 31 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2025-12-03 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct +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.); Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct 90 (Memory 25 of 30, LM Studio's MLX 4-bit build is 17.2 GB and Ollama's 4-bit build 19 GB, 21 to 23 GB with a fifth added, which fits 24 GB.)
- Agent interface, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct +55: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct 75 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Cola2 +27: 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…); Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct 31 (Model card 11 of 20, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, but limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off aren't.)
- Risk, Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct +15: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct 55 (File safety 25, safetensors weights, and the shipped parser script runs neither to load the model nor to build prompts.)