Cohere Launches North Mini Code for Efficient Agentic Software Development

Cohere

Jun 10, 2026

Cohere introduced North Mini Code, its first open-source coding model. This small, efficient model is designed for agentic performance, offering developers control over their coding infrastructure for autonomous workflows.

Cohere launched North Mini Code, its first open-source coding model, designed for agentic performance. This MoE (Mixture of Experts) model has 30 billion total parameters with 3 billion active, focusing on code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks.

Model size: 30B total; 3B active
License: Apache 2.0
Context length: 256K total context; 64K max generation
Optimized for: Code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks
Artificial Analysis Coding Index: 33.4
Minimum hardware: 1× H100 @ FP8

The model achieves a 33.4 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, demonstrating competitive performance for its size. In internal tests, North Mini Code showed up to 2.8 times higher output throughput than Devstral Small 2, enabling faster iteration and reducing computational overhead for developer tasks.

The North Mini Code model is available under an Apache 2.0 license, supporting sovereign AI development. Developers can download the weights from Hugging Face, access it via the Cohere API, or deploy it on Cohere Model Vault. It is also available on platforms like OpenCode and OpenRouter, aligning with the trend of making agentic coding models accessible for local and cloud deployment, similar to MiniMax M3 for local PCs.

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Introducing Cohere's first open-source coding model: North Mini Code Small & efficient, designed for agentic performance and built for community input. https://t.co/GYk5ORtysU

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