# MiniCPM-o 4.5 vs North Mini Code 1.0 (slim)

> MiniCPM-o 4.5 and North Mini Code 1.0 score within a point of each other for open-weight models you run yourself, 61 and 61 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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MiniCPM-o 4.5 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 risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- MiniCPM-o 4.5: C 61, rank #48 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm-o-4-5.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
- MiniCPM-o 4.5, good for Agents that need a local model to see, hear and speak on a laptop or a single small GPU, with a plain licence. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 85; Documentation and upkeep, 66 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 Risk, 60 against 40; Agent interface, 85 against 35.

| Category | MiniCPM-o 4.5 | North Mini Code 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 90 | 85 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 35 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 66 | 36 |

| Fact (where they differ) | MiniCPM-o 4.5 | North Mini Code 1.0 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | OpenBMB | Cohere |
| Licence | Apache-2.0; built from Qwen3-8B, SigLIP2, Whisper-medium and CosyVoice2, all Apache 2.0 on their Hub cards | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-24 | 2026-07-29 |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, North Mini Code 1.0 +50: MiniCPM-o 4.5 35 (Chat template 20, a Jinja template in the tokenizer config.); North Mini Code 1.0 85 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,397 characters).)
- Documentation and upkeep, MiniCPM-o 4.5 +30: MiniCPM-o 4.5 66 (Model card 11 of 20, limitations, context length and a knowledge cut-off are missing.); 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: MiniCPM-o 4.5 40 (File safety 5 of 25, two pickle files sit in the speech stage and the documented load runs repository code.); North Mini Code 1.0 60 (File safety 25, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files and no Python in the repository.)
- Reach, MiniCPM-o 4.5 +5: MiniCPM-o 4.5 90 (Memory 30, OpenBMB's 4-bit GGUF with its vision file is 5.9 GB, about 7 GB with a fifth added.); 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.)