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Cohere: North Mini Code (free)

cohere/north-mini-code:free

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Price Published

Input
$0
per million tokens
Output
$0
per million tokens

A $0 token rate isn't unlimited. OpenRouter applies free-tier rate and daily limits, and needs an account and API key.

Specifications Published

Context window
256,000 tokens
Max output
64,000 tokens
Tool calling
Supported
Vision input
Not listed
Reasoning
Supported
Knowledge cutoff
Not reported
Listed since
Jun 17, 2026

Measured by the Club Signed cheapoS reports

Request success
Too few to rate
13 of 17 known outcomes succeeded · rates start at 20
Avg request time
11,200 ms
17 timed reports · includes generation
Rate-limit / quota failures
0
of 4 reported failures

17 request reports from 1 member · OpenRouter via OmniRoute · Sep 22, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026

What these numbers mean

0 cancelled and 0 unknown outcomes are excluded from the success percentage. Request success means the provider answered; it doesn't mean the code or task succeeded. The likely range is a 95% Wilson interval: with few outcomes it stays wide, and one bad day can move the rate a lot. Rates need at least 20 known outcomes and averages at least 5 timed reports.

  • malformed request: 2
  • transient provider: 1
  • capability mismatch: 1

How we measure · Reports come from cheapoS members who share model details.

Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter

Intelligence index
9.9
Coding index
36.5
Agentic index
1.1

Scores from Artificial Analysis, as distributed in the OpenRouter catalog. They measure test suites, not request reliability on real work.

Try it

  1. Get an OpenRouter API key. Create one here (free models need an account, not credits). Other free tiers are compared on Providers.
  2. Add it to cheapoS. Open Models → Open OmniRoute, add OpenRouter with your key, then refresh models. Get cheapoS
  3. Pick this model. Use the ID cohere/north-mini-code:free as a worker or reviewer, and start with a small task you can check.

About this model OpenRouter description

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...

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