CohereFastFreeReleased 17 June 2026
North Mini Code (free) pricing, context and benchmark
North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family.
256K
Input context
64K
Output context
Free
Official input
Free
Official output
n/a
AA index
01 · Model Overview
Everything that matters, in one table
Context, pricing, cache, modalities and tooling, from the model registry and Artificial Analysis.
| Model | North Mini Code (free) |
| Model ID | cohere/north-mini-code:free |
| Provider | Cohere |
| Release date | 17 June 2026 |
| Status | Generally available |
| Input context | 256,000 tokens |
| Output context | 64,000 tokens |
| Official input pricing | Free per 1M tokens |
| Official output pricing | Free per 1M tokens |
| Cache read pricing | Not published |
| Market input pricing | Free per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Market output pricing | Free per 1M (cheapest route) |
| Input modalities | text |
| Output modalities | text |
| Reasoning control | Not exposed |
| Tool support | Text generation only |
| Tokenizer | Cohere |
| Provider routes | 1 endpoint |
| Artificial Analysis index | Not published |
| Speed | Not published |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not publicly stated |
Input and output support
| Modality | Input | Output | Billed at |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text | ✓ yes | ✓ yes | Free in |
| Image | no | no | not supported |
| Audio | no | no | not supported |
| Video | no | no | not supported |
| File (PDF) | no | no | not supported |
02 · Overview
What is 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...
North Mini Code (free) carries a 256K token window, uses the Cohere tokenizer and is served by Cohere. On Hoodgen it sits in the Fast tier of the model menu next to its siblings, so you can switch mid conversation without losing the thread.
03 · Release
Release and what changed from the previous version
Released17 June 2026
This is the only release of North Mini Code (free) on OpenRouter, released 17 June 2026. The provider has not published a knowledge cutoff, so treat training data as recent but unconfirmed for very new events.
07 · Use cases
What can you do with North Mini Code (free)?
High volume drafts
Captions, titles, product blurbs and rewrite passes where cost per call dominates.
Inline assistants
Autocomplete, quick replies and menu helpers that must answer inside a second.
Batch classification
Tagging, routing and extraction across thousands of short inputs.
Cheap agent loops
Tool calling loops that do not need frontier grade reasoning.
09 · Pricing
North Mini Code (free) pricing
Official pricing
List price
Free / 1M in
Free / 1M out
- 256K context
- text input
Cheapest route
Free / 1M in
Free / 1M out
- 1 route on OpenRouter
- What Hoodgen routes to first
- Same model, lower bill
Market pricing, every route
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere | standard | Free | Free | n/a | 100.0% |
API pricing and cost calculator
| Rate | Per call | Total | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest route | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 1 |
| List price | $0.0000 | $0.00 | 1 |
10 · Developers
API and developer information
| Model ID | cohere/north-mini-code:free |
| Endpoint | https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions |
| Parameters | prompt and max_tokens |
| Streaming | Yes, server sent events |
| Modality string | text->text |
| Max prompt tokens | 256,000 |
| Max completion tokens | 64,000 |
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "cohere/north-mini-code:free",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Summarise this document." }],
"max_tokens": 1024
}'11 · Limitations
Model limitations
| Text only output | It cannot generate images, audio or video. Pair it with an image model on Hoodgen when you need visuals. |
| Output cap | 64,000 tokens per request. Long deliverables have to be chunked. |
| Benchmarks not published | Artificial Analysis does not publish an Intelligence Index for this release, so no benchmark score is claimed here. |
| Knowledge cutoff | The provider does not state a fixed cutoff for every release. Verify very recent events against search. |
| Depth ceiling | Fast tier: strong on throughput, weaker than flagship tiers on long multi step reasoning. |
| Rate limits | Free routes are rate limited by the provider, so heavy batch jobs should use a paid route. |
12 · Comparison
North Mini Code (free) vs other Cohere models
| Model | Context | Input /1M | Output /1M | AA index | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Mini Code (free) | 256K | Free | Free | n/a | 2026 |
| Command A+ | 192K | $0.3 | $1.5 | 6 | Sep 2026 |
13 · Privacy
Privacy and data policy
- On Hoodgen, prompts and attachments answer that request and stay in your conversation history so you can reopen it. They are not used to train models.
- Requests route through OpenRouter to Cohere and are covered by that provider's API terms.
- Do not paste secrets or personal data you would not send to any hosted model.
14 · FAQ
North Mini Code (free) questions, answered
North Mini Code (free) is a fast model from Cohere, released 17 June 2026. North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model and the debut of its North family.
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