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Cohere shipped its first developer-facing model on June 9, 2026. North Mini Code is a 30B mixture-of-experts coding model with 3B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights, and a deployment footprint of a single H100. Here is what it actually offers and where the open questions are.
Choosing a local coding LLM in 2026 means balancing benchmark performance, hardware cost, and the compliance pressure to keep code off third-party servers. Here is what to run and on what hardware.

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