openai-chat-completions / text / global / free-account-no-purchase
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North Mini Code
cohere/north-mini-code:free
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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- Account
- OpenRouter account required
- API key
- Required
- Payment method
- Not required
- Regions
- Unknown
- Free type
- Zero-price route
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Call OpenRouter directly with the exact route ID shown on this page.
- 1Create or sign in to your OpenRouter account.
- 2Create an API key in OpenRouter settings.
- 3Store the key as OPENROUTER_API_KEY in your environment.
- 4Run one of the examples below with the exact model ID.
- Model ID
- cohere/north-mini-code:free
- Base URL
- https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
Copy-ready request
Every language uses the same endpoint, model ID, prompt, and token limit.
Request parameters reviewed from source: . This source review is not proof of runtime success.
curl 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions' \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${OPENROUTER_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"cohere/north-mini-code:free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Reply with exactly: free-model-ok"}],"max_completion_tokens":16}'Evidence history
Catalog observations and real probes remain separate and append-only.
- Official catalog observation
Listed in the official OpenRouter catalog as a free route.
Scope: openai-chat-completions / text / global / free-account-no-purchase
Open primary source
Source last observed: Jul 15, 2026, 1:40 AM
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North Mini Code was added from the official OpenRouter catalog.
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