North Mini Code 1.0 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

North Mini Code 1.0 85

Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository (12,397 characters). Tool-calling format 25, the card documents how tools are declared (JSON schema through the chat template), how the call and its thinking go back into the history and how results are appended, and names the cohere_command4 tool-call parser for vLLM, which released vLLM has. Trained tool calling 20, the card says the model was specifically trained with tool-use capabilities for agentic coding, with reinforcement learning on verifiable tasks, and the template renders every call in a turn with thinking between them. Structured output 0, JSON schema is for describing tools. Reasoning control 10, the template has a reasoning_effort setting, and the card names the cohere_command4 reasoning parser, which returns thinking apart from the answer. Context 10, 256K tokens per the card, with 64K of output, and 500,000 positions in config.json. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 75

Chat template 20, a Jinja template in tokenizer_config.json. Tool-calling format 25, Qwen's own Function Calling guide documents the Hermes-style declaration and how calls come back, and names vLLM's hermes parser. Trained tool calling 20, the template allows one or more calls a turn. Structured output 0, not documented for the model, and Qwen's docs only point to vLLM's generic guided decoding. Reasoning control 0, this edition has no thinking. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native, with the 1M mode not counted. Template and config unchanged on 4 November. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 10 = 75.

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 Last change 10, the main repository last changed on 15 June 2026 (outdated chat templates removed), 148 days before this check, and the draft model's repository on 29 July, 104 days.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.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 26

Model card 11 of 20, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, but limitations, named languages and a knowledge cut-off aren't. Training data 5, the cited Qwen3 report describes the data in general terms without a cut-off. Last change 0, the files and card last changed on 17 September 2025 (Hub lastModified on 4 November), and QwenLM/Qwen3's commits since are documentation only (the newest 8 January 2026). Responsiveness 0, counted by script on 4 November, with 32 discussions, 23 not pull requests (the newest 18 June 2026), and the only reply from a Qwen organisation member is Haihao's on discussion 3 (30 July 2025), who isn't counted as the publisher's staff (the ehartford and danielhanchen reading). Version policy 5, the older Qwen3-30B-A3B stays in its own repository without a note. File health 5, the files agree with the card but reports about the 1M mode wait without a reply. 11 + 5 + 0 + 0 + 5 + 5 = 26.

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.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 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. Runtimes 25, released Transformers, vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp run the qwen3_moe architecture, and Ollama's library and LM Studio's catalogue carry it. Builds 10 of 15, Alibaba's only quantised build is FP8. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 with nothing added. Download 10, neither repository is gated. Hosted 5, Featherless AI on Hugging Face plus DekaLLM and SiliconFlow on OpenRouter serve it. On 4 November both repositories were still ungated with no file changed since 17 September 2025, and Featherless AI was still live in the Hub's provider mapping (OpenRouter's providers per 21 October). 25 + 25 + 10 + 15 + 10 + 5 = 90.

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.

Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 55

File safety 25, safetensors only and nothing from the repository runs to load it or build prompts. Provenance 15, the files are in the Qwen organisation that Qwen's GitHub links to, with a checksum on every file. Safety evaluation 0, none published. Agent guidance 0, nothing on prompt injection, refusals or safeguards. Licence risk 15, plain Apache 2.0 whose only change was the copyright year before release. Security programme 0, no security.txt, disclosure policy or security contact for Qwen was found, and Alibaba's group security centre couldn't be checked, so it's scored as absent. Files unchanged on 4 November, and QwenLM/Qwen3 still has no SECURITY.md. 25 + 15 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 55.