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North Mini Code: pricing, context and benchmarks
North Mini Code is Cohere's model released on June 17, 2026. It is offered free of charge on OpenRouter, with a 256K-token context window. No independent score has been published for it so far.
What you need to know about North Mini Code
Cohere, based in Canada, put North Mini Code online on June 17, 2026. It accepts text as input and produces text. Its context window reaches 256,000 tokens, larger than 41 % of the models in the registry, and it can write up to 64,000 tokens in one go.
It has been available for about 4 months, long enough for its prices and scores to have settled.
North Mini Code pricing
North Mini Code is free on OpenRouter. Free variants usually have strict rate limits and can be withdrawn without notice: keep a paid fallback model for regular use.
Performance and benchmarks
Epoch AI does not yet publish a capabilities index for North Mini Code. We therefore show no made-up performance rating: only price, context and features count towards its score.
Features, privacy and local use
- It supports tool calling, so it can drive an AI agent, call APIs or MCP servers.
- It is a reasoning model: it "thinks" before answering, which helps on hard tasks but uses more output tokens.
Its weights are open and downloadable from Hugging Face (apache-2.0 licence): you can run it on your own machines without sending your data to a third party. With 30,484,303,872 billion parameters, it needs about 17,034,432,220 GB of memory at 4-bit quantisation. Check with the VRAM calculator. It was downloaded 7,325 times on Hugging Face last month.
Other Cohere models
| Model | Released | Avg. price | ECI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Command A+ | Sep 22, 2026 | $0.6 | — |
| Command A | Mar 13, 2025 | $4.38 | — |
| Command R7B (12-2024) | Dec 14, 2024 | $0.07 | — |
| Command R (08-2024) | Aug 30, 2024 | $0.26 | — |
| Command R+ (08-2024) | Aug 30, 2024 | $4.38 | — |
Verdict
Computed score: 80/100, from public data (performance, price, context, features).
Strengths
- Usable for free on OpenRouter.
- Open weights: self-hostable, your data stays with you.
Limitations
- No independent score published: performance cannot be verified.
- Text only: reads neither images nor files.
- Free version is rate-limited with no availability guarantee.
Avoid if…
- you want to host it on a single consumer computer (≈ 17,034,432,220 GB needed at 4-bit).
Alternatives
- Nemotron 3 Nano Omnifree
- Mercury 2.5$0.07
- Mistral Nemo$0.03
- gpt-oss-20b$0.04
- Gemma 3 4B$0.04
- Flintfree
Comparisons and tools
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Frequently asked questions
How much does North Mini Code cost?
North Mini Code is free on OpenRouter as of October 25, 2026, with rate limits.
How big is North Mini Code's context window?
256,000 tokens, roughly 192,000 words, with a maximum of 64,000 output tokens.
Can North Mini Code run locally?
Yes, its weights are published under the apache-2.0 licence. Expect about 17,034,432,220 GB of memory at 4-bit.
Is North Mini Code suitable for an AI agent?
Technically yes: it supports tool calling. Then check its cost for your volume.
What are the alternatives to North Mini Code?
The closest models on price and performance are Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, Mercury 2.5, and Mistral Nemo.
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