# Cola2 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B (slim)

> Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B 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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Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B 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
- Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B: C 61, rank #57 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.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 43.
- Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B, good for Agents on a 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want Qwen3.8-27B's skills with shorter thinking, for teams under US$1M revenue or research. Ahead on Reach, 80 against 25; Risk, 50 against 40; Agent interface, 60 against 20.

| Category | Cola2 | Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 80 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 50 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 43 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | UkisAI |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | Swift Open License v1.0 (custom, not an OSI licence) on UkisAI's changes, free for commercial use below US$1M gross annual revenue with a separate Swift Enterprise License above it. Built on Qwen3.8-27B, whose Apache 2.0 still governs the base |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| 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 | 2.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B +55: 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.); Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B 80 (Memory 25 of 30, UkisAI's 4-bit MLX build is 15.9 GB and its 4-bit GGUF with the vision projector 16.4 GB, both under 20 GB with a fifth added, which fits 24 GB…)
- Agent interface, Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B +40: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B 60 (Chat template 20, the base's Jinja file.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Cola2 +15: 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…); Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B 43 (Model card 8 of 20, intended use, parameters and context only.)
- Risk, Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B +10: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B 50 (File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs.)