Climate change is leading to a disproportionately large warming in the high northern latitudes, but the magni-tude and sign of the future carbon balance of the Arctic are highly uncertain. Using 40 terrestrial biosphere models for the Alaskan Arctic from four recent model intercomparison projects – NACP (North American Carbon Program) site and regional syntheses, TRENDY (Trends in net land atmosphere carbon exchanges), and WETCHIMP (Wetland and Wetland CH 4 Inter-comparison of Models Project) – we provide a baseline of terrestrial carbon cycle uncertainty, defined as the multi-model standard deviation (σ) for each quantity that follows. Mean annual absolute uncertainty was largest for soil carbon (14.0 ± 9.2 kg C m −2), then gross primary pro-duction (GPP) (0.22 ± 0.50 kg C m −2 yr −1), ecosystem res-piration (Re) (0.23 ± 0.38 kg C m −2 yr −1), net primary pro-duction (NPP) (0.14 ± 0.33 kg C m −2 yr −1), autotrophic res-piration (Ra) (0.09 ± 0.20 kg C m −2 yr −1), heterotrophic res-piration (Rh) (0.14 ± 0.20 kg C m −2 yr −1), net ecosystem ex-change (NEE) (−0.01 ± 0.19 kg C m −2 yr −1), and CH 4 flux (2.52 ± 4.02 g CH 4 m −2 yr −1). There were no consistent spa-tial patterns in the larger Alaskan Arctic and boreal regional carbon stocks and fluxes, with some models showing NEE for Alaska as a strong carbon sink, others as a strong car-bon source, while still others as carbon neutral. Finally, AmeriFlux data are used at two sites in the Alaskan Arc-tic to evaluate the regional patterns; observed seasonal NEE was captured within multi-model uncertainty. This assess-ment of carbon cycle uncertainties may be used as a base-line for the improvement of experimental and modeling ac-tivities, as well as a reference for future trajectories in car-bon cycling with climate change in the Alaskan Arctic and larger boreal region.