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North Small Translate
North Small Translate is Cohere's latest language model in our dataset, released Sep 9, 2026. Open weights (CC BY-NC 4.0). Cohere's open-weights mixture-of-experts machine-translation model for more than 50 languages, released Sep 9, 2026 for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.
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- ReleasedSep 9, 2026
- Context window16K16,000 tokens
- LicenceOpen weights, restrictedCC BY-NC 4.0
Modalities not verified
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Cohere | n/a |
| Released | Sep 9, 2026 | source |
| Status | generally available | n/a |
| API id | north-small-translate-09-2026 | source |
| Context window | 16,000 tokens (16K) Cohere lists a 16K context length. | source |
| Parameters | 218B total, 25B active, mixture-of-experts | source |
| Licence | CC BY-NC 4.0 (open weights) Open weights are for non-commercial use only. | source |
Where North Small Translate sits in our data
- Released Sep 9, 2026 (week 37 of 2026), in September 2026. Other models in our data released that month: GPT-6.1 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, GPT-6 Luna.
- The previous Cohere model we track is Cohere Transcribe Arabic (Jul 7, 2026), 64 days earlier.
- Of the 60 models in our data with a published context window, North Small Translate has the number 59 largest (16K tokens). Our data is not every model on the market.
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How North Small Translate differs from North Mini Code
Read from the recorded facts of the two models, not from a head-to-head test. We have not run either.
- Context window is 16K tokens against 256K for North Mini Code.
- North Small Translate came out 92 days after North Mini Code.
- Facts for the other model: North Mini Code.
What we tested
Nothing yet. We have not run North Small Translate ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.
Not verified, left out
We could not confirm these on a vendor page, so we do not state them.
- Price was not captured; the model is on the free tier of the Chat V2 API.
Sources
More from Cohere
- North Mini Code (Jun 9, 2026)
- Cohere Transcribe Arabic (Jul 7, 2026)
- Command A+ (May 20, 2026)
- Cohere Transcribe (Mar 26, 2026)