North Mini Code 1.0
North Mini Code, announced June 9, 2026, is Cohere's first open-weight developer model: a 30B-A3B MoE for agentic coding, small enough in active parameters to run locally. Cohere's official release names Apache-2.0, though at least one report flagged a possibly conflicting non-commercial note on the Hugging Face model card — verify directly against the HF repo before commercial deployment.
Overview
North Mini Code, announced June 9, 2026, is Cohere's first open-weight developer model: a 30B-A3B MoE for agentic coding, small enough in active parameters to run locally. Cohere's official release names Apache-2.0, though at least one report flagged a possibly conflicting non-commercial note on the Hugging Face model card — verify directly against the HF repo before commercial deployment.
Strengths
- Cohere's first open-weight model, purpose-built for agentic coding
- MoE (3B active of 30B total) — light enough to demo on a Mac Studio per the vendor
- 256K input context
Weaknesses
- License clarity: Apache-2.0 per the official announcement, but a conflicting non-commercial annotation has been reported on the HF card — confirm before commercial use
- New vendor entrant to open-weight coding models with limited independent track record
Quantization variants
Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.
| Quantization | File size | VRAM required |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 19.0 GB | 23 GB |
Get the model
Ollama
One-line install
ollama run north-mini-code-1.0Read our Ollama review →Hardware that runs this
Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of North Mini Code 1.0.
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Frequently asked
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Source: Vendor official documentation
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