

North Code
#219 in Frontier LLMsCohere · since 2026-06-09 · 7× · last seen Jun 29, 2026
Cohere North Mini Code (North-Mini-Code-1.0) is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts language model with 30B total parameters and 3B active parameters per token, released on June 9, 2026 under the Apache 2.0 license. It is purpose-built for agentic software engineering, code generation, and terminal tasks, running on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU at FP8 precision. The model is the inaugural member of Cohere's new "North" model family and is available for free on Hugging Face as well as via the Cohere API and OpenRouter. No per-token API price has been officially published by Cohere; on OpenRouter the model is available on a free tier.
Features
| Coding Benchmark (SWE-bench Pro %) | 61.0% pass@1 (SWE-bench Pro, via mini-SWE-Agent harness) |
| Context Window (Tokens) | 256,000 tokens (max output: 64,000 tokens) |
| Multimodal (Image/Video) | No – text input and text output only, no image or video input |
| NLP Benchmark Score | 33.4 (Artificial Analysis Coding Index, official Cohere figure) |
| Price per 1M Input Tokens | $0.00 (via OpenRouter free tier); no official per-token price published on cohere.com/pricing |
| Price Tier (Monthly) | Free (open-weight, Apache 2.0 – download on Hugging Face at no charge; $0/month on OpenRouter; no monthly subscription model) |