Head to head · Open-weight models you run yourself · October 2026 research run
EXAONE 4.5 33B vs North Mini Code 1.0
EXAONE 4.5 33B and North Mini Code 1.0 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). North Mini Code 1.0 leads on reach and risk. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.
Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents · All 6359 open weights comparisons
Which one, for what
Best for Researchers and students working on documents, Korean or multimodal agents who don't need commercial rights
Ahead on
- Documentation and upkeep, 50 against 36
Watch for
Research and education only. No commercial use of the model or its output
Best for Developers who want a coding agent on their own GPU with a permissive licence
Ahead on
- Reach, 85 against 65
- Risk, 60 against 50
Watch for
No limitations, safety results, languages or data description on the card
Why the edge
Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.
Reach North Mini Code 1.0 +20
EXAONE 4.5 33B 65
Memory 20, the smallest build at 4 bits is LG's IQ4_XS GGUF, 18.03 GB with the 2.57 GB projector, and 20.60 GB × 1.2 = 24.7 GB, within 32 GB. Without the projector, for text only, it would fit 24 GB. Runtimes 15, Released vLLM 0.33.0 has exaone4_5.py, Transformers 5.22.2 has the exaone4_5 model, and llama.cpp b12242 has the architecture, with LG's own GGUF. Three at 5 each. Builds 15, LG publishes GGUF at five quantised precisions, an AWQ build and an FP8 build. Terms 5, Research and educational use only. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for all four repositories on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and no click-through, though the licence says downloading is acceptance. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it, and the card names no API that serves it. 20 + 15 + 15 + 5 + 10 + 0 = 65.
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. Unsloth's GGUF isn't read for this line. Runtimes 20, Released vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23 and Transformers 5.22.2 have the cohere2_moe model, and llama.cpp b12242 has the cohere2moe architecture. Builds 15, Quantised builds from Cohere at two precisions, FP8 and 4-bit weights (w4a16), each in its own repository. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 in the metadata and on the card, an OSI licence with nothing added. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the model and its builds on 10 November 2026, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it. 25 + 20 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 85.
Documentation and upkeep EXAONE 4.5 33B +14
EXAONE 4.5 33B 50
Model card 20, Uses (the quickstart's question answering, document and agent examples), limitations, the architecture, the parameters, the context, the languages (in the metadata) and a knowledge cut-off of December 2024 are all on the card. Training data 5, A knowledge cut-off and one line on excluding personal, harmful and biased content, with no sources or sizes. Last change 10, the main repository last changed on 6 July 2026 (dependencies moved to official releases), 127 days before this check, and the FP8 repository on 9 August, 93 days. Responsiveness 0, none of the 5 most recent discussions that aren't pull requests (13 April to 4 May 2026) has a reply from an LGAI-EXAONE member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, EXAONE 4.0 and 4.0.1 stay in their own repositories and 4.5 came out in new ones, with no dated note on the older cards that we read. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture and the 262,144 tokens, and a July commit moved the dependencies to released versions. 20 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 50.
North Mini Code 1.0 36
Model card 11, Intended use, the architecture, the parameters and the context are on the card. Training data 0, the card gives the training method and nothing about the data. Last change 10, the main repository last changed on 15 June 2026 (outdated chat templates removed), 148 days before this check, and the draft model's repository on 29 July, 104 days. Responsiveness 0, none of the 11 most recent discussions that aren't pull requests (7 June to 6 November 2026) has a reply from a CohereLabs member, counted on 10 November by author flags and dates with a script, text not read. Version policy 5, A first release, with each build in its own repository. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture, and the June commit that removed broken templates says so. 11 + 0 + 10 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 36.
Risk North Mini Code 1.0 +10
EXAONE 4.5 33B 50
File safety 25, safetensors and GGUF only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in the LGAI-EXAONE organisation (LG AI Research on the Hub), which the card's GitHub repository shares a name with and the licence in the repository is LG's (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions: the limitation section lists inappropriate, biased, incorrect and outdated answers and tells users not to try to induce harmful output. Licence risk 5, 15 less 5 for field-of-use limits beyond the law (no commercial use, no building competing models) and 5 for terms the licensor can change or revoke (LG may amend the agreement at any time, and the licence is revocable). Security programme 0, no way to report a flaw on the card beyond a support contact, and www.lgresearch.ai has no security.txt. 25 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 50.
North Mini Code 1.0 60
File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository. Provenance 15, the files sit in Cohere's verified CohereLabs organisation, which cohere.com links to per our other Cohere listings (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 0, the card has no limitations or safety section, and nothing on prompt injection, instruction priority or what the model refuses. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 has no use policy, threshold or change clause. Security programme 5, Cohere's trust centre holds a responsible disclosure policy with a bug bounty, as recorded on our Cohere listings (5). 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 5 = 60.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | EXAONE 4.5 33B | North Mini Code 1.0 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | 35%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25%25 | 65 | 85 | North Mini Code 1.0 +20 |
| Risk | 20%20 | 50 | 60 | North Mini Code 1.0 +10 |
| Agent interface | 10%10 | 85 | 85 | even |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10%10 | 50 | 36 | EXAONE 4.5 33B +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 61/100 | C 61/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | EXAONE 4.5 33B | North Mini Code 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | LG AI Research | Cohere |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | EXAONE AI Model License Agreement 1.2 - NC (research and education only) | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-07-06 | 2026-07-29 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
Verdicts
EXAONE 4.5 33B
A well-documented vision-language model with a full set of builds, tool calling, switchable reasoning, a 256K context and a stated knowledge cut-off. The licence decides whether you can use it: research and education only, output included, and LG can change the terms. Nothing answered on the repository and no safety results.
North Mini Code 1.0
A coding agent model that fits one 24 GB GPU at 4 bits, trained for tool use, with a 256K context, Apache 2.0 and four released runtimes. It's a research release and reads like one: nothing on limitations, safety or data, the card's run instructions are out of date, and Cohere hasn't answered a question on the repository.
Before you call either
EXAONE 4.5 33B
- Don't use it, or anything it writes, commercially. The licence covers the output too
- Serve it with vLLM and
--reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes - Set
enable_thinkingfalse for a direct answer. Thinking is on by default - Use temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and presence_penalty 1.5 in general, and temperature 0.6 with top_k 20 for documents and Korean
- For llama.cpp, load a projector file from LG's GGUF repository with the weights for image input
- Its knowledge stops at December 2024
North Mini Code 1.0
- Serve it with vLLM 0.33.0 or later and
--tool-call-parser cohere_command4 --reasoning-parser cohere_command4 --enable-auto-tool-choice, withcohere_melodyinstalled - Pass the model's thinking back with its tool calls on every turn. The card says results drop without it
- Describe tools in JSON schema and append tool results as a dictionary with the tool role
- Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95
- For llama.cpp the GGUF files are Unsloth's or bartowski's conversions, not Cohere's
- It's text only. Don't send images
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, EXAONE 4.5 33B or North Mini Code 1.0?
EXAONE 4.5 33B and North Mini Code 1.0 score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). North Mini Code 1.0 leads on reach and risk.
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