CohereFreeNorth Mini Code
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 and 3B active parameters.
Model ID
cohere/north-mini-code- Context window
- 256K
- tokens
- Max output
- 64K
- tokens
- Pricing
- Free
- $0 per token, for input and output.
Quickstart
Call North Mini Code in one request.
Point the SDK you already use at xKiro and pass the model ID. The same key works for every model in the catalog.
SDK guidesimport osfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key=os.environ["XKIRO_API_KEY"], base_url="https://api.xkiro.com/v1",) res = client.chat.completions.create( model="", messages=[ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain HTTP caching in two sentences."}, ],) print(res.choices[0].message.content)✓ 200 OK
"model": "cohere/north-mini-code"
HTTP caching stores copies of responses so later requests can be served without contacting the origin server. Headers such as Cache-Control and ETag decide how long a copy stays fresh and how it is revalidated.
14 input · 42 output tokens · $0 on this free model
Create an API key in the dashboard and export it as XKIRO_API_KEY.
Pricing
What North Mini Code costs.
Free to call on every account, within the daily free-model allowance. No credit card.
Free
$0 per token, for input and output.
Billed fairly
- Requests that fail with a 5xx error are never billed
- Retrying an identical blocking request replays the first result — no double charge
- Cancel a stream and pay only for the tokens generated
Specifications
Limits and capabilities.
- Context window
- 256,000 tokens
- Max output
- 64,000 tokens
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Provider
- Cohere
- Model ID
- cohere/north-mini-code
- Good for
- Coding · Long context
Capabilities
- Tool useSupported
- VisionNot supported
- Video inputNot supported
- ReasoningSupported
Reasoning effort
- none
- high
Set it with reasoning_effort in the OpenAI format, or thinking in the Anthropic format.
Supported parameters
- max_tokens
- temperature
- top_p
- stop
- frequency_penalty
- presence_penalty
- seed
- stream
- tools
- response_format
- structured_outputs
- reasoning
- include_reasoning
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