North Mini Code
North Mini Code is an open-weights language model from Cohere, released June 9, 2026. Its makers disclosed about 30B parameters. The context window is 250K tokens. API price: $0 input / $0 output per million tokens.
Today we're launching North Mini Code open-source. A mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, North Mini Code is Cohere's first agentic coding model, and the inaugural member of our next generation of powerful models.
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Can you run North Mini Code locally?
Even with 32 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM it is too large to run at a usable speed on a single consumer GPU. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
Parameter count unknown. The weights may not be on Hugging Face yet.
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for North Mini Code yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
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