North Mini Code 1.0

Name: North Mini Code 1.0
Author: Cohere

Released

2026-06-09

Last refreshed

2026-06-10

Status

Researched 86d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permittedCodingRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool useCodingAgents

North Mini Code 1.0 is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
Workloads that can use a 256k context window
Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

Vision or document-understanding workloads

Specifications

Family: North
Released: 2026-06-09
Context: 256k
Max output: 64,000
Parameters: 30B (MoE, 3B active)
Architecture: Mixture of Experts
Specialization: code
Openness: Open source
License: Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights: Available
Code: Unknown
Training: Multi-stage

Created by

Cohere

Empowering developers with advanced language AI.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Founded 2022

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

Input / 1M

Cheapest of 1 route · Cohere API

Providers(1)

Cohere API

View 1 provider route

Links

Website HuggingFace

About

A 30B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts (3B active parameters) code generation model from Cohere, released as open weights under Apache 2.0. Designed for agentic software engineering, code generation, and terminal-based tasks. Supports a 256K token context window with 64K maximum output length, interleaved thinking, and tool use via JSON schema chat templates. The inaugural model in Cohere's North family.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.

RAG

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Cohere API	-	-	ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(4)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSCohere API

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.

PassthroughCohere API

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.

SubscriptionCohere API

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionCohere API

Capabilities

ReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

SWE-bench ProRank 43 of 46

80.3

79.2

69.2

67.7

North Mini Code 1.0current

40.2

SWE-bench VerifiedRank 69 of 81

Claude Fable 5

96.0

Claude Opus 5

96.0

Claude Mythos Preview

93.9

Claude Opus 4.8

88.6

North Mini Code 1.0current

67.6

Benchmark scores(3)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.

Benchmark	Score	Version	Evaluation	Source
SWE-bench Verified	67.6	released model, pass@1, SWE-Agent harnessObserved 2026-06-09	—	Source
SWE-bench Pro	40.2	released model, pass@1Observed 2026-06-09	—	Source
Terminal-Bench 2.0	36.0	Terminal-Bench v2, pass@1, Terminus-2 harnessObserved 2026-06-09	—	Source