Cohere: North Mini Code (free)

cohere/north-mini-code:free

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...

Modalities

In / out price

Free / Free per 1M

Context

256K

Released

Jun 17, 2026

Why use North Mini Code (free)

Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)

Pricing

Input	Free / 1M tokens
Output	Free / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Intelligence index9.9

Coding index36.5

Agentic index1.1

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

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TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

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Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Cohere: North Mini Code (free)	$0	$0	$0

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Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

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