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Cohere: North Mini Code (free)

cohere/north-mini-code:free

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North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family. A sparse mixture-of-experts model with 30B total parameters and 3B active, it is optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks, and is trained to generalize across agent harnesses such as OpenCode and SWE-Agent.

It offers a 256K-token context window with up to 64K tokens of output, supports interleaved reasoning and tool use via JSON schema, and is released open-weight under the Apache 2.0 license. Its small active-parameter footprint enables low-latency inference, including on local hardware.

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Price

Free

Context

256K

Released

Jun 17, 2026

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Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Benchmark score summary for Cohere: North Mini Code (free) (Artificial Analysis)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code Coding Index36.5
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code Agentic Index1.1
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code GPQA Diamond75.7%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code HLE11.1%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code IFBench57.6%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code τ²-Bench Telecom37.4%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code AA-LCR37.3%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code GDPval-AA0.0%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code CritPt0.3%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code SciCode38.8%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code Terminal-Bench Hard31.1%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code AA-Omniscience Accuracy18.9%
Artificial AnalysisNorth Mini Code AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate16.8%

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.

100.00%

Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.

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Availability over the last 3 days

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Availability 99.83%
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OpenRouter Availability
99.89%

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Frequently asked questions

North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family. A sparse mixture-of-experts model with 30B total parameters and 3B active, it is optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks, and is trained to generalize across agent harnesses such as OpenCode and SWE-Agent.

Yes. The pricing shown on this page for North Mini Code (free) is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited — see the rate limit docs.

North Mini Code (free) has a 256,000 token context window. It supports up to 64,000 completion tokens.

Yes. North Mini Code (free) accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It does not support response_format, so JSON output is not enforced.

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North Mini Code (free) was released on June 17, 2026.

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