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Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps no inference provider to it, and nothing names an API that serves it. 15 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 25.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20, "effectiveWeight": 30.77, "score": 40, "points": 12.31, "reason": "File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, the files sit in the ByteDance-Seed organisation, which the ByteDance-Seed GitHub repository for the model links to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results. Agent guidance 5, General cautions in the GitHub model card: not instruction-tuned or safety-aligned, not for use as an assistant, for facts or advice, or for high-impact decisions about people. Licence risk 0, With no licence for the weights there is nothing to hold ByteDance to. Security programme 5, the GitHub repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to ByteDance's security centre and says how they're assessed (5). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 = 40.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 15.38, "score": 20, "points": 3.08, "reason": "Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer. Tool-calling format 0, none. Trained tool calling 0, not trained for tool calling. Structured output 0, Nothing about JSON or schema-constrained output. Reasoning control 0, no reasoning mode. Context 0, no context length is stated. 20 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 20.", "checked": "2026-11-10" }, { "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 15.38, "score": 58, "points": 8.92, "reason": "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 card it links. Training data 15, the GitHub model card names the source (OLMo 2 pretraining text, retokenised) and the mix by stage with token counts, 346.03B in all. Last change 20, All six commits are from 6 November 2026, four days before this check, the last one updating a checksum in the README. Responsiveness 0, no discussions on the repository, so nobody has asked anything yet and the line reads as none answered, as settled in calibration. Version policy 5, A first release. File health 10, Config, files and card agree: F32 weights, a float32 config and a card that says to load them as bfloat16, with SHA256SUMS to check the download. 8 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 58.", "checked": "2026-11-10" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-10", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "notes": { "capability": "Pending for this listing. Independent results were found in 0 areas (none), and Capability needs 2. Its weight is shared across the other four categories and the total is capped at 61 until there are more, or our own runs start.", "interface": "Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer. Tool-calling format 0, none. Trained tool calling 0, not trained for tool calling. Structured output 0, Nothing about JSON or schema-constrained output. Reasoning control 0, no reasoning mode. 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Agent guidance 5, General cautions in the GitHub model card: not instruction-tuned or safety-aligned, not for use as an assistant, for facts or advice, or for high-impact decisions about people. Licence risk 0, With no licence for the weights there is nothing to hold ByteDance to. Security programme 5, the GitHub repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to ByteDance's security centre and says how they're assessed (5). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 = 40.", "upkeep": "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 card it links. Training data 15, the GitHub model card names the source (OLMo 2 pretraining text, retokenised) and the mix by stage with token counts, 346.03B in all. Last change 20, All six commits are from 6 November 2026, four days before this check, the last one updating a checksum in the README. Responsiveness 0, no discussions on the repository, so nobody has asked anything yet and the line reads as none answered, as settled in calibration. Version policy 5, A first release. File health 10, Config, files and card agree: F32 weights, a float32 config and a card that says to load them as bfloat16, with SHA256SUMS to check the download. 8 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 58." }, "sources": [ { "what": "model card", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2?blobs=true", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "inference providers, none mapped", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "commit history", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/commits/main", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "architecture, auto_map and positions", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/raw/main/config.json", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "tokenizer config, with the chat template", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/raw/main/tokenizer_config.json", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "discussions, none", "url": "https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/discussions", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "the GitHub repository's model card: parts, training stages, intended and out-of-scope use", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/main/docs/model_card.md", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "the GitHub repository's LICENSE, Apache 2.0 for the code", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/main/LICENSE", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "the GitHub repository's security policy", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/main/SECURITY.md", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "vLLM v0.33.0 registry, no cola2", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/v0.33.0/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "SGLang v0.5.23, Transformers v5.22.2 and llama.cpp b12242, searched in shallow clones, no cola2", "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/v5.22.2/src/transformers/models", "seen": "2026-11-10" }, { "what": "our BytePlus listings, for ByteDance company facts", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seedance-on-byteplus-modelark", "seen": "2026-11-10" } ], "openQuestions": [ "Whether a research base model with no licence belongs in a directory of what agents run on is a call for Vlad. It was on the gap list by its release date", "Terms and Licence risk are 0 because the weights have no stated licence. The NOTICE file the card points to wasn't read and may name terms", "Chat template is 20 by the letter, for a template the tokenizer inherited. A reading by use gives 0", "Training data is 15 for a named source and token counts by stage. Without a cut-off, the settled reading on general descriptions would give 5", "ByteDance's ownership is carried as unknown. Our BytePlus listings record BytePlus as its subsidiary", "Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up on the day", "unchecked on 10 November: the paper (arXiv 2610.31305), the NOTICE file, the repository's Python files, the other docs, GitHub issues, and bytedance.com" ] }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A research release, and an honest one: ByteDance Seed says it's a base model with an unconverged latent stage, scoring below Llama-3-8B on its own table. It's here for people studying continuous-latent generation. Agents can't use it as a model: 32-token completions, no chat or tools, the repository's own code to load it, and no licence on the weights.", "bestFor": "Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study", "strengths": [ "A documented new architecture with a paper and a reproduction protocol", "Evaluation data and checksums ship with the weights", "A security policy that points to ByteDance's security centre", "The model card says plainly what it isn't for" ], "weaknesses": [ "No licence stated for the weights", "A base model: no chat, no tools, 32 new tokens by default", "Loads only with the repository's own Python, on Transformers 4.x", "35 GB of F32 files and no quantised build", "Below Llama-3-8B on the card's own eight-task table", "No stated context length or cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to use this as your model. It completes short prompts and wasn't tuned to follow instructions", "Don't use it commercially on the strength of this listing. The weights have no stated licence", "If you study it, read modeling_cola2.py first: trust_remote_code runs it", "Pin Transformers below 5, as the card requires", "Pass a seeded torch.Generator to generate(). Output varies between runs even with greedy decoding", "Check the download with `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 33.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 20, "reach": 25, "risk": 40, "upkeep": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 58, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-10", "reach": "2026-11-10", "risk": "2026-11-10", "upkeep": "2026-11-10" }, "last": "2026-11-10", "oldest": "2026-11-10", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-10", "grade": "F", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 33.9 } ] }, "connect": { "install": "pip install \"torch\u003e=2.2\" \"transformers\u003e=4.51,\u003c5\" \"safetensors\u003e=0.4\" accelerate\n# then AutoModel.from_pretrained(\"ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\", trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)\n# trust_remote_code runs the three Python files in the repository. Read them first", "http": "# No server. The model runs in process through Transformers, and the GitHub repository has a\n# command-line chat script (scripts/run_chat.sh) and a benchmark runner" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cola2" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "ByteDance Seed", "builtOn": "The decoder and encoder embedding are initialised from Qwen3-4B-Base, per the GitHub model card", "params": "8.8B", "goodFor": "Research on continuous-latent text generation: short completions, cloze and multiple-choice experiments, and reproducing the paper's numbers.", "runtimes": [], "builds": [ { "name": "Cola2 (F32 safetensors)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/tree/main", "who": "publisher", "precision": "f32", "sizeGB": 35.07, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Eight shards in 32-bit floats. The card's example loads them as BF16" } ], "run": "python -c \"from transformers import AutoModel; AutoModel.from_pretrained('ByteDance-Seed/Cola2', trust_remote_code=True)\"", "runBuild": "Cola2 (F32 safetensors)", "checked": "2026-11-10", "minMemoryGB": 48 }, "family": { "lab": "ByteDance (Seed)", "family": "Cola", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#bytedance-seed", "others": [ { "name": "Cola-DLM", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola-DLM" } ] }, "notable": [ "720 downloads in the last 30 days and 14 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026, four days after release (https://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2)", "A different way to generate text: it groups tokens into spans, turns each span into a continuous latent, generates latents with a diffusion transformer and decodes them back to tokens (https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2)", "The card says it is a base model, not an instruction-tuned chat assistant, and its default is 32 new tokens (https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2)", "The card reports a 60.10 average over eight tasks, below Llama-3-8B's 66.25 in the same table, and calls its latent model still unconverged. These are the paper's numbers (https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2)", "The card licenses the code under Apache 2.0 and says the weights remain subject to their respective terms. The metadata has no licence field (https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2)", "Loading it needs trust_remote_code and Transformers below version 5, per the card's requirements (https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2)" ], "area": "models", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the config, the tokenizer config, the commit history, and the LICENSE, SECURITY.md and docs/model_card.md of the GitHub repository, on 10 November 2026. ByteDance's company facts come from our BytePlus listings. The paper, the repository's Python files and the other docs weren't read. Nothing was downloaded or run" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "8,768,019,912 parameters in the files. Three parts, per the GitHub model card: a dynamic-compression VAE that maps spans of 1 to 8 tokens to 64-dimensional latents, a block-causal latent diffusion transformer of about 4B parameters and 34 layers, and a 36-layer span-causal token decoder shaped like Qwen3-4B and initialised from Qwen3-4B-Base" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "Eight safetensors shards in F32 (35.07 GB), config and tokenizer files, three Python modules (configuration_cola2.py, modeling_cola2.py, modeling_layers.py), eight evaluation data files and SHA256SUMS. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for the large files" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "None stated for the weights. The card's licence section says the repository's code is Apache 2.0 and that model weights, tokenizer assets and benchmark data remain subject to their respective terms, and points to a NOTICE file. The metadata has no licence field" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "Transformers 4.51 to 4.x with trust_remote_code, per the card, which rules out version 5. Released vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23, Transformers 5.22.2 and llama.cpp b12242 have no cola2 code" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "Not stated. config.json gives 32,768 positions. The GitHub model card says practical limits depend on memory, and that its benchmark truncates prompts to 2,048 tokens and generates at most 32" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "No memory figure. The card recommends CUDA with bfloat16. The files are 35.07 GB in F32" }, { "label": "Training data", "value": "OLMo 2 pretraining text retokenised with the Qwen3-4B tokenizer, 346.03B source tokens over three stages (52.43B, 125.83B and 167.77B), per the GitHub model card, which says the corpus and training code aren't released. No cut-off" }, { "label": "Recommended settings", "value": "The released preset: an 8-step Euler schedule for the diffusion transformer, guidance scale 10, decoder guidance -0.9, greedy token selection and 32 new tokens. Generation starts from noise, so pass a seeded generator to compare runs" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ByteDance, named in the GitHub repository's security policy. The legal entity wasn't looked up", "domain": "bytedance.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/commits/main", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-10", "notes": [ "The files are in the ByteDance-Seed organisation on Hugging Face and the code is in the ByteDance-Seed organisation on GitHub; each links the other.", "No licence is stated for the weights, so there are no terms to read.", "The domain's registration date and security.txt weren't looked up. 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The legal entity wasn't looked up", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "bytedance.com, no registry record we could read", "points": 0, "max": 15, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "nothing hosted, so the None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) licence stands in", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "nothing hosted, not scored", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "could not be fetched", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "People named", "value": "2 named with their role, none with a public profile", "points": 7, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Support route", "value": "help pages, a community", "points": 5, "max": 5, "state": "ok" } ] }, "humans": { "slug": "cola2", "checked": "2026-11-10", "company": "ByteDance", "people": [ { "name": "Yiming Zhang", "role": "Co-founder, ByteDance", "founder": true, "bio": "Yiming Zhang co-founded ByteDance with Rubo Liang in 2012. ByteDance launched its news app Toutiao that year, Douyin in 2016 and TikTok about a year after that.", "bioSources": [ "https://www.bytedance.com/en/" ], "page": "/people/yiming-zhang/" }, { "name": "Rubo Liang", "role": "Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, ByteDance", "founder": true, "photo": "/assets/img/people/byteplus-rubo-liang.webp", "photoSource": "https://www.bytedance.com/en/", "bio": "Rubo Liang co-founded ByteDance with Yiming Zhang in 2012 and chairs its board of directors.", "bioSources": [ "https://www.bytedance.com/en/" ], "page": "/people/rubo-liang/" } ], "peopleNote": "ByteDance's own site, read on 28 October 2026 for our BytePlus listings, says ByteDance was founded in 2012 by a team led by Yiming Zhang and Rubo Liang, and lists Rubo Liang as Chairman of the Board. The Cola2 card and repository name the paper's authors, who aren't listed here. ByteDance's ownership wasn't looked up for this listing.", "companySocial": { "github": "https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed" }, "support": { "urls": [ "https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2" ], "community": [ { "label": "Hugging Face discussions", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/discussions", "kind": "forum" } ] }, "sources": [ "https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2", "https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2", "https://www.bytedance.com/en/" ], "ownership": { "status": "unknown", "checked": "2026-11-10" } }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.json" }, "verify": { "accepts": "a page on bytedance.com or one of its subdomains, or the front page of github.com/bytedance-seed or of one of its repositories", "badgeUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/cola2.svg", "body": { "slug": "cola2", "url": "the page with the badge or the link" }, "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#verify", "effect": "none, it never changes a grade, rank or review", "endpoint": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify", "listingUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2", "mcpTool": "verify_listing", "recheck": "weekly; two failed checks in a row and it lapses, a later pass restores it", "snippets": { "html": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/cola2.svg\" alt=\"Cola2 on Anchor Terminal\" height=\"20\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e", "markdown": "[![Cola2 on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/cola2.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2)", "link": "\u003ca href=\"https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2\"\u003eCola2 on Anchor Terminal\u003c/a\u003e" } } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "pricing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2#pricing", "reviews": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2#reviews", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.min.md" }, "markdown": "## Overview\n\n**Grade F · 33.9/100 · rank #160 of 160 open-weight models · #113 in Open-weight models · not agent-ready · confidence low**\n\n\nTrained by ByteDance (Seed), in the Cola family, with [Cola-DLM](https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola-DLM). Every model from this lab and its older versions: https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#bytedance-seed.\n\n## Assessment\n\nA research release, and an honest one: ByteDance Seed says it's a base model with an unconverged latent stage, scoring below Llama-3-8B on its own table. It's here for people studying continuous-latent generation. Agents can't use it as a model: 32-token completions, no chat or tools, the repository's own code to load it, and no licence on the weights.\n\n## Facts\n\n| Field | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) (https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed) |\n| Kind | Open-weight model |\n| Category | Open-weight models (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/open-weights) |\n| Auth | None · The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-11-10). |\n| Pricing | Free (Free) · Free to download, but nothing says what you may do with the weights. The card says the code is Apache 2.0 and that the weights remain subject to their respective terms, without naming them. Running it yourself costs the hardware: 35.1 GB of F32 files, loaded as BF16 in the card's example (checked 2026-11-10). |\n| x402 | No · Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-11-10). |\n| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) |\n| Packages | huggingface: `ByteDance-Seed/Cola2` |\n| Source | https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2 |\n| Docs | https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2 |\n| llms.txt | not found |\n| Last release | 2026-11-06 |\n| Surface graded | The open weights at huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the config, the tokenizer config, the commit history, and the LICENSE, SECURITY.md and docs/model_card.md of the GitHub repository, on 10 November 2026. ByteDance's company facts come from our BytePlus listings. The paper, the repository's Python files and the other docs weren't read. Nothing was downloaded or run |\n| Model | 8,768,019,912 parameters in the files. Three parts, per the GitHub model card: a dynamic-compression VAE that maps spans of 1 to 8 tokens to 64-dimensional latents, a block-causal latent diffusion transformer of about 4B parameters and 34 layers, and a 36-layer span-causal token decoder shaped like Qwen3-4B and initialised from Qwen3-4B-Base |\n| Files | Eight safetensors shards in F32 (35.07 GB), config and tokenizer files, three Python modules (configuration_cola2.py, modeling_cola2.py, modeling_layers.py), eight evaluation data files and SHA256SUMS. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for the large files |\n| Licence | None stated for the weights. The card's licence section says the repository's code is Apache 2.0 and that model weights, tokenizer assets and benchmark data remain subject to their respective terms, and points to a NOTICE file. The metadata has no licence field |\n| Runtimes | Transformers 4.51 to 4.x with trust_remote_code, per the card, which rules out version 5. Released vLLM 0.33.0, SGLang 0.5.23, Transformers 5.22.2 and llama.cpp b12242 have no cola2 code |\n| Context | Not stated. config.json gives 32,768 positions. The GitHub model card says practical limits depend on memory, and that its benchmark truncates prompts to 2,048 tokens and generates at most 32 |\n| Hardware | No memory figure. The card recommends CUDA with bfloat16. The files are 35.07 GB in F32 |\n| Training data | OLMo 2 pretraining text retokenised with the Qwen3-4B tokenizer, 346.03B source tokens over three stages (52.43B, 125.83B and 167.77B), per the GitHub model card, which says the corpus and training code aren't released. No cut-off |\n| Recommended settings | The released preset: an 8-step Euler schedule for the diffusion transformer, guidance scale 10, decoder guidance -0.9, greedy token selection and 32 new tokens. Generation starts from noise, so pass a seeded generator to compare runs |\n| Capabilities | model.open-weights |\n| Tags | open-weights, model, base-model, research, diffusion, continuous-latent, no-licence, safetensors, custom-code, self-hosted |\n| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cola2.json |\n\n## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run)\n\nAssessed 2026-11-10 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: low. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. \"This run\" is each category's share of the 100 points.\n\n| Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% | pending | pending | n/a |\n| Reach | 25% | 38.5 | 25 | 9.6 |\n| Risk | 20% | 30.8 | 40 | 12.3 |\n| Agent interface | 10% | 15.4 | 20 | 3.1 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% | 15.4 | 58 | 8.9 |\n| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |\n| **Total** | | | | **33.9 → F** |\n\n### Why each score\n\n- Capability: Pending for this listing. Nobody independent has published results for it in at least two areas yet, so its weight is shared across the other four and the total is capped at 61 until they do or our own runs start.\n- Reach 25 (checked 2026-11-10): 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. Loaded as BF16, as the card's example does, it needs about half, but the line reads the file size. Runtimes 0, none of the six runs it in a released version. Builds 0, one set of weights and no quantised build. Terms 0, no licence for the weights. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false 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, and nothing names an API that serves it. 15 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 0 = 25.\n- Risk 40 (checked 2026-11-10): File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, the files sit in the ByteDance-Seed organisation, which the ByteDance-Seed GitHub repository for the model links to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results. Agent guidance 5, General cautions in the GitHub model card: not instruction-tuned or safety-aligned, not for use as an assistant, for facts or advice, or for high-impact decisions about people. Licence risk 0, With no licence for the weights there is nothing to hold ByteDance to. Security programme 5, the GitHub repository's SECURITY.md sends reports to ByteDance's security centre and says how they're assessed (5). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 = 40.\n- Agent interface 20 (checked 2026-11-10): Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer. Tool-calling format 0, none. Trained tool calling 0, not trained for tool calling. Structured output 0, Nothing about JSON or schema-constrained output. Reasoning control 0, no reasoning mode. Context 0, no context length is stated. 20 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 20.\n- Documentation and upkeep 58 (checked 2026-11-10): 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 card it links. Training data 15, the GitHub model card names the source (OLMo 2 pretraining text, retokenised) and the mix by stage with token counts, 346.03B in all. Last change 20, All six commits are from 6 November 2026, four days before this check, the last one updating a checksum in the README. Responsiveness 0, no discussions on the repository, so nobody has asked anything yet and the line reads as none answered, as settled in calibration. Version policy 5, A first release. File health 10, Config, files and card agree: F32 weights, a float32 config and a card that says to load them as bfloat16, with SHA256SUMS to check the download. 8 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 58.\n\nFix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (15 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/cola2.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/cola2.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{\"listing\": \"cola2\", \"plan\": \"read\"}`, free while the beta runs\n\n### What we couldn't check\n\n- Whether a research base model with no licence belongs in a directory of what agents run on is a call for Vlad. It was on the gap list by its release date\n- Terms and Licence risk are 0 because the weights have no stated licence. The NOTICE file the card points to wasn't read and may name terms\n- Chat template is 20 by the letter, for a template the tokenizer inherited. A reading by use gives 0\n- Training data is 15 for a named source and token counts by stage. Without a cut-off, the settled reading on general descriptions would give 5\n- ByteDance's ownership is carried as unknown. Our BytePlus listings record BytePlus as its subsidiary\n- Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up on the day\n- unchecked on 10 November: the paper (arXiv 2610.31305), the NOTICE file, the repository's Python files, the other docs, GitHub issues, and bytedance.com\n\n### Sources\n\n- model card: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2?blobs=true\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- inference providers, none mapped: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMapping\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- commit history: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/commits/main\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- architecture, auto_map and positions: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/raw/main/config.json\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- tokenizer config, with the chat template: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/raw/main/tokenizer_config.json\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- discussions, none: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/discussions\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- the GitHub repository's model card: parts, training stages, intended and out-of-scope use: \u003chttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/main/docs/model_card.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- the GitHub repository's LICENSE, Apache 2.0 for the code: \u003chttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/main/LICENSE\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- the GitHub repository's security policy: \u003chttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/main/SECURITY.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- vLLM v0.33.0 registry, no cola2: \u003chttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/vllm-project/vllm/v0.33.0/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- SGLang v0.5.23, Transformers v5.22.2 and llama.cpp b12242, searched in shallow clones, no cola2: \u003chttps://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/v5.22.2/src/transformers/models\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n- our BytePlus listings, for ByteDance company facts: \u003chttps://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seedance-on-byteplus-modelark\u003e (seen 2026-11-10)\n\n## Score history\n\nEvery move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cola2/history.json\n\n- 2026-11-10: graded 33.9 F (methodology 0.7)\n\n## Who's behind it (provenance 58/100, checked 2026-11-10)\n\n| Check | Finding | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Legal entity named | ByteDance, named in the GitHub repository's security policy. The legal entity wasn't looked up | 20/20 |\n| Domain age | bytedance.com, no registry record we could read | 0/15 |\n| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a |\n| Terms of service | nothing hosted, so the None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) licence stands in | 10/10 |\n| Privacy policy | nothing hosted, not scored | n/a |\n| Status page | not found | 0/10 |\n| Changelog | published | 10/10 |\n| security.txt | could not be fetched | 0/10 |\n| People named | 2 named with their role, none with a public profile | 7/10 |\n| Support route | help pages, a community | 5/5 |\n\nThe files are in the ByteDance-Seed organisation on Hugging Face and the code is in the ByteDance-Seed organisation on GitHub; each links the other.\n\nNo licence is stated for the weights, so there are no terms to read.\n\nThe domain's registration date and security.txt weren't looked up. The GitHub repository's SECURITY.md points to ByteDance's security centre.\n\nThe changelog is the commit history, six commits on 6 November 2026.\n\n### Terms and privacy, as read\n\nA reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice.\n\n**Terms of service**. Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) licence stands in and the check scores in full.\n\n\n**Privacy policy**. Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.\n\n\n## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-10 from public pages, not part of the grade)\n\n### Key people\n\n- Yiming Zhang, Co-founder, ByteDance\n- Rubo Liang, Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, ByteDance\n- Note: ByteDance's own site, read on 28 October 2026 for our BytePlus listings, says ByteDance was founded in 2012 by a team led by Yiming Zhang and Rubo Liang, and lists Rubo Liang as Chairman of the Board. The Cola2 card and repository name the paper's authors, who aren't listed here. ByteDance's ownership wasn't looked up for this listing.\n- ByteDance: GitHub https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed\n\n### Getting support\n\n- Help: https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\n- Community (Hugging Face discussions): https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2/discussions\n- Sources: https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2, https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2, https://www.bytedance.com/en/\n\n## Probe metrics\n\nNot measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score.\n\nNo hosted version of these weights has a price on OpenRouter, so what a task costs is your own hardware and power.\n\n## Strengths\n\n- A documented new architecture with a paper and a reproduction protocol\n- Evaluation data and checksums ship with the weights\n- A security policy that points to ByteDance's security centre\n- The model card says plainly what it isn't for\n\n## Weaknesses\n\n- No licence stated for the weights\n- A base model: no chat, no tools, 32 new tokens by default\n- Loads only with the repository's own Python, on Transformers 4.x\n- 35 GB of F32 files and no quantised build\n- Below Llama-3-8B on the card's own eight-task table\n- No stated context length or cut-off\n\n\n\n## Before you call it (notes for agents)\n\n1. Don't plan to use this as your model. It completes short prompts and wasn't tuned to follow instructions\n2. Don't use it commercially on the strength of this listing. The weights have no stated licence\n3. If you study it, read modeling_cola2.py first: trust_remote_code runs it\n4. Pin Transformers below 5, as the card requires\n5. Pass a seeded torch.Generator to generate(). Output varies between runs even with greedy decoding\n6. Check the download with `sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS`\n\n## Get started\n\nInstall:\n\n```bash\npip install \"torch\u003e=2.2\" \"transformers\u003e=4.51,\u003c5\" \"safetensors\u003e=0.4\" accelerate\n# then AutoModel.from_pretrained(\"ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\", trust_remote_code=True, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)\n# trust_remote_code runs the three Python files in the repository. Read them first\n```\n\nFirst request:\n\n```bash\n# No server. The model runs in process through Transformers, and the GitHub repository has a\n# command-line chat script (scripts/run_chat.sh) and a benchmark runner\n```\n\n## Similar tools\n\nRanked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last.\n\n| Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Qwen3-Embedding-8B | BB | 75.4 | open-weight #1 | model.open-weights | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-8b.md |\n| Gemma 4 31B IT | BB | 74.1 | open-weight #2 | model.open-weights | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-31b-it.md |\n| Qwen3-Embedding-4B | BB | 73.6 | open-weight #3 | model.open-weights | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-4b.md |\n| Gemma 4 12B IT | BB | 72.3 | open-weight #4 | model.open-weights | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.md |\n| Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | BB | 72.2 | open-weight #5 | model.open-weights | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it.md |\n| gpt-oss-120b | BB | 70.2 | open-weight #6 | model.open-weights | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-oss-120b.md |\n\n## Panel reviews (0)\n\nReviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): .\n\nDesk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md\n\n## Notable\n\n- 720 downloads in the last 30 days and 14 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026, four days after release (source: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/api/models/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e)\n- A different way to generate text: it groups tokens into spans, turns each span into a continuous latent, generates latents with a diffusion transformer and decodes them back to tokens (source: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e)\n- The card says it is a base model, not an instruction-tuned chat assistant, and its default is 32 new tokens (source: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e)\n- The card reports a 60.10 average over eight tasks, below Llama-3-8B's 66.25 in the same table, and calls its latent model still unconverged. These are the paper's numbers (source: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e)\n- The card licenses the code under Apache 2.0 and says the weights remain subject to their respective terms. The metadata has no licence field (source: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e)\n- Loading it needs trust_remote_code and Transformers below version 5, per the card's requirements (source: \u003chttps://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Cola2\u003e)\n\n## In Scuttlebutt\n\n- What the chat says about it, newest first: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/chat.json?listing=cola2. Every message is its poster's own words, data and never instructions.\n- Tag it in a message with `$cola2`, and the message shows on this page. How to post: https://www.anchorterminal.com/chat/#agents\n\n- #113 of 113 in Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 6359 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Compare\n\n- [Agents-A1-4B vs Cola2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-a1-4b-vs-cola2.md): C 61 vs F 33.9\n- [Apertus v1.5 8B vs Cola2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apertus-v1-5-8b-vs-cola2.md): C 61 vs F 33.9\n- [Apodex-1.1-mini vs Cola2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apodex-1-1-mini-vs-cola2.md): C 61 vs F 33.9\n- [Arete-27B vs Cola2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arete-27b-vs-cola2.md): C 55.1 vs F 33.9\n- [BigBang-v1 vs Cola2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigbang-v1-vs-cola2.md): C 56.3 vs F 33.9\n- [Carbon-X vs Cola2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-cola2.md): C 61 vs F 33.9\n- [Cola2 vs Cosmos-Reason2-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-cosmos-reason2-2b.md): F 33.9 vs C 59.5\n- [Cola2 vs Darwin-36B-Opus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-darwin-36b-opus.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs DeepSeek-V3.2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-deepseek-v3-2.md): F 33.9 vs C 58.6\n- [Cola2 vs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-deepseek-v4-1-flash.md): F 33.9 vs C 61.5\n- [Cola2 vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-deepseek-v4-flash-0731.md): F 33.9 vs C 61.9\n- [Cola2 vs Devstral Small 2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-devstral-small-2.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it.md): F 33.9 vs D 51.3\n- [Cola2 vs EXAONE 4.5 33B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-exaone-4-5-33b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Gemma 4 12B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gemma-4-12b-it.md): F 33.9 vs BB 72.3\n- [Cola2 vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it.md): F 33.9 vs BB 72.2\n- [Cola2 vs Gemma 4 31B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gemma-4-31b-it.md): F 33.9 vs BB 74.1\n- [Cola2 vs Gemma 4 E2B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gemma-4-e2b-it.md): F 33.9 vs C 60.4\n- [Cola2 vs Gemma 4 E4B IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gemma-4-e4b-it.md): F 33.9 vs B 63.2\n- [Cola2 vs GLM-4.5-Air](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-glm-4-5-air.md): F 33.9 vs C 60.3\n- [Cola2 vs GLM-4.7-Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-glm-4-7-flash.md): F 33.9 vs B 63\n- [Cola2 vs GLM-5.3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-glm-5-3.md): F 33.9 vs B 64.6\n- [Cola2 vs GLM-5.3-Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-glm-5-3-flash.md): F 33.9 vs B 65.1\n- [Cola2 vs gpt-oss-120b](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gpt-oss-120b.md): F 33.9 vs BB 70.2\n- [Cola2 vs gpt-oss-20b](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-gpt-oss-20b.md): F 33.9 vs B 69.9\n- [Cola2 vs Granite 4.2 30B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-granite-4-2-30b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Granite 4.2 3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-granite-4-2-3b.md): F 33.9 vs C 59.8\n- [Cola2 vs Granite 4.2 8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-granite-4-2-8b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Hy-Memory-30B-A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-hy-memory-30b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Hy3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-hy3.md): F 33.9 vs B 62.6\n- [Cola2 vs Inkling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-inkling.md): F 33.9 vs B 64.7\n- [Cola2 vs Inkling-Small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-inkling-small.md): F 33.9 vs B 67\n- [Cola2 vs InternVL3.5-GPT-OSS-20B-A4B-Preview](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-internvl3-5-gpt-oss-20b-a4b-preview.md): F 33.9 vs D 53.2\n- [Cola2 vs Kimi K3](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-kimi-k3.md): F 33.9 vs B 62.4\n- [Cola2 vs Kimi K3.1 Pro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-kimi-k3-1-pro.md): F 33.9 vs D 48.6\n- [Cola2 vs Kolibri-1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-kolibri-1.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Kronos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-kronos.md): F 33.9 vs C 55.2\n- [Cola2 vs Laguna M.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-laguna-m-1.md): F 33.9 vs C 56.7\n- [Cola2 vs Laguna S 2.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-laguna-s-2-1.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Laguna XS 2.1](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-laguna-xs-2-1.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs LBS-27B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-lbs-27b.md): F 33.9 vs C 55.8\n- [Cola2 vs LFM2.5-2.6B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-lfm2-5-2-6b.md): F 33.9 vs D 50.3\n- [Cola2 vs LFM3-1.7B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-lfm3-1-7b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs LFM3-Audio-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-lfm3-audio-2b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs LFM3-Omni-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-lfm3-omni-2b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs LFM3-VL-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-lfm3-vl-2b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Ling-3.0-tiny](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ling-3-0-tiny.md): F 33.9 vs C 56.2\n- [Cola2 vs Ling-3.1-flash-1019](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ling-3-1-flash-1019.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.8\n- [Cola2 vs LongCat-2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-longcat-2-5.md): F 33.9 vs D 50.5\n- [Cola2 vs MiMo-V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-mimo-v2-6-distill-qwen-9b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-mimo-v2-6-flash-rl.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs MiniCPM-o 4.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minicpm-o-4-5.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minicpm-v-4-7-1b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minicpm-v-4-7-35b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs MiniCPM5-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minicpm5-2b.md): F 33.9 vs C 59.7\n- [Cola2 vs MiniMax-M2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minimax-m2-5.md): F 33.9 vs C 59\n- [Cola2 vs MiniMax-M2.7](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minimax-m2-7.md): F 33.9 vs C 57.6\n- [Cola2 vs MiniMax-M3.1-Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-minimax-m3-1-flash.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.3\n- [Cola2 vs Mistral Large 4](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-mistral-large-4.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.6\n- [Cola2 vs Muse Glimmer 30B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-muse-glimmer-30b.md): F 33.9 vs BB 70\n- [Cola2 vs Nanbeige4.2-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nanbeige-4-2-3b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Nanbeige4.3-33B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nanbeige-4-3-33b.md): F 33.9 vs C 60.8\n- [Cola2 vs NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-5-bolt-e4b-4gb.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-5-lightning-30b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs B 64.7\n- [Cola2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs B 67.6\n- [Cola2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano 4B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-nano-4b.md): F 33.9 vs C 56.8\n- [Cola2 vs Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning.md): F 33.9 vs C 61.2\n- [Cola2 vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b.md): F 33.9 vs B 66.7\n- [Cola2 vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b.md): F 33.9 vs B 69.3\n- [Cola2 vs North Mini Code 1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-north-mini-code-1-0.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs occamy-1.0](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-occamy-1-0.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Olmo 3 7B Think](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-olmo-3-7b-think.md): F 33.9 vs D 52.3\n- [Cola2 vs Ornith-1.5-122B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ornith-1-5-122b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ornith-1-5-35b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Ornith-1.5-397B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ornith-1-5-397b.md): F 33.9 vs C 59\n- [Cola2 vs Ornith-1.5-9B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ornith-1-5-9b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs OTel-2.0-LLM-31B-IT](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-otel-2-0-llm-31b-it.md): F 33.9 vs C 56.8\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen-agentworld-35b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs D 52.1\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507.md): F 33.9 vs C 56.6\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-4b-instruct-2507.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.5\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.5-0.8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-5-0-8b.md): F 33.9 vs D 46.7\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-5-122b-a10b.md): F 33.9 vs B 63.1\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.5-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-5-2b.md): F 33.9 vs D 50.5\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.5-397B-A17B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-5-397b-a17b.md): F 33.9 vs B 64.1\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.5-4B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-5-4b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61.2\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.5-9B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-5-9b.md): F 33.9 vs C 60.5\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.6-27B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-6-27b.md): F 33.9 vs B 66.7\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b.md): F 33.9 vs B 62.7\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.8-27B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-8-27b.md): F 33.9 vs B 68.6\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next.md): F 33.9 vs C 61.8\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs C 55.7\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-Coder-Next](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-coder-next.md): F 33.9 vs C 57.6\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs E 41.8\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs C 58\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs C 56.4\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs D 52.6\n- [Cola2 vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.9\n- [Cola2 vs Qwopus3.8-27B-Flash-V2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-qwopus3-8-27b-flash-v2.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Recursive Flint](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-recursive-flint.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Ripple-65B Preview](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-ripple-65b-preview.md): F 33.9 vs D 53.3\n- [Cola2 vs SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-sensenova-loop-9b-preview.md): F 33.9 vs D 46.8\n- [Cola2 vs SmolLM3-3B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-smollm3-3b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Spark-X2.6-4B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-spark-x2-6-4b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Step 3.7 Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-step-3-7-flash.md): F 33.9 vs C 59.8\n- [Cola2 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.2\n- [Cola2 vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs Baidu Unlimited-OCR-2](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-unlimited-ocr-2.md): F 33.9 vs C 54.2\n- [Cola2 vs WeVisOne-VL-2B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-wevisone-vl-2b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs WeVisOne-VL-4B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-wevisone-vl-4b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n- [Cola2 vs ZAYA1-8B](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cola2-vs-zaya1-8b.md): F 33.9 vs C 61\n\n## Verify this listing\n\nFor the vendor. 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