North Mini Code
Cohere's free coder that beats models 4× its size, runs on your own Mac.
What is North Mini Code?
North Mini Code is the Cohere frontier model with a Specs not yet public context window, released 2026-06-19. Tagline: Cohere's free coder that beats models 4× its size, runs on your own Mac..
Pricing detail. Cohere's free coding model — small parameter count, runs locally, designed to out-punch models four times its size on agent-coding benchmarks. No token bill, no API key required.
How I use it inside the Agent OS. Wired into the Agent OS as the local-first coder for offline workflows. Bench scoring pending.
What I built with North Mini Code
Every model on Goldie Bench gets the same fixed prompt set — one shot, single HTML file out — and I score the result 0–10 inside the Agent Operating System. Here's what North Mini Code shipped on the bench: 0 one-shot demos across Specs not yet public of context. Of those, 0 are scored against the field with my honest 0–10 from the source guides at agentos.guide.
Strengths
- Tiny + fast — runs locally with no GPU farm required
- Out-scores models 4× its parameter count on agent-coding benchmarks (Cohere's own number)
- Zero cost — free for individuals, runs offline
Trade-offs
- Cohere's own number, not independently verified
- No goldiebench per-task scores yet
Best for
- Local coding loops on a Mac where you don't want a token meter
- Offline / air-gapped agent workflows
- Operators who want to compare a small-but-mighty model against the larger field
Every demo by North Mini Code
0 live demos, sorted by category. Click any tile to play the actual one-shot result. Verdicts and 0–10 scores are pulled from the source guides where I posted them publicly.
Head-to-heads with North Mini Code
Direct comparisons against every other scored model on the bench:
North Mini Code vs Opus 4.8 North Mini Code vs GLM-5.2 North Mini Code vs Grok North Mini Code vs Qwen 3.7 North Mini Code vs Kimi K2.7Read more on agentos.guide: /local-ai-coding-engine, /local-code-engine, /offline-agent-engine, /local-hermes-engine
Run this stack yourself.
Every demo on this bench was built inside the Agent Operating System — one prompt, one shot, single HTML file out. The Agent OS, the prompts, the templates, the weekly walkthroughs and 3,600+ founders shipping with it every day all live inside the AI Profit Boardroom.