# North Mini Code (30B-A3B)

> Cohere's compact agentic coding MoE adapts the parallel Cohere2-MoE block to a 30B total, 3B active model.

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | Cohere (Canada) |
| Released | 2026-06-05 |
| Decoder type | Sparse MoE |
| Family | Sparse MoE |
| Scale | 30B total, 3B active (10% active) |
| Context window | 256K input, 64K output tokens |
| Attention | 8:1 GQA with 3:1 sliding-window/global attention |
| Layer mix | 36 sliding-window + 13 global GQA/MoE |
| KV cache / token (bf16) | 98 KiB (Moderate) |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |

**Key detail:** Runs attention and MoE in parallel, with RoPE in sliding-window layers, NoPE in global layers, and top-8 routing over 128 experts.

## Architecture concepts

- [Grouped-Query Attention (GQA)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/gqa.md): Several query heads share one key/value head, shrinking the KV cache with little quality loss.
- [Sliding Window Attention (SWA)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/swa.md): Some layers only attend to a local window of recent tokens instead of the whole context.
- [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/moe.md): Many feed-forward experts, but a router sends each token to only a few of them.
- [No Positional Embeddings (NoPE)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/nope.md): Some or all layers drop explicit positional encodings and rely on the causal mask.

## Benchmark (Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index)

- AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2: total 9.9 (General 15.9, Scientific 5.7, Coding 19.6, Agents 0.2)

## Links

- Architecture diagram: https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/images/architectures/north-mini-code.webp
- config.json: https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Mini-Code-1.0/blob/main/config.json
- Tech report: https://huggingface.co/blog/CohereLabs/introducing-north-mini-code
- Source card (source of truth): https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/#card-north-mini-code-30b-a3b
- Web page: https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/models/north-mini-code-30b-a3b/
- JSON: https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/api/models/north-mini-code-30b-a3b.json

_Data from Sebastian Raschka's LLM Architecture Gallery (https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/). Synced 2026-11-04._