Open-weight #19 OpenRouter overall #38
Cohere · Coding MoE

Deploy North Mini Code 1.0

Cohere's 30B-A3B open coding model for terminal tasks and agentic software engineering.

Total / active30B / 3B
Context ceiling256K
Planning floor1×80GB
Resident weights~61GB
RuntimevLLM latest
LicenseApache 2.0
Practical target 1x 80GB GPU; prefer the FP8 checkpoint when available

The model card currently asks for vLLM main and Cohere's melody package for accurate response parsing.

Seven runbooks for North Mini Code 1.0

Every card opens a setup sequence tailored to this model's runtime and memory floor.

RunPod Guided endpoint

1x H100/A100 80GB-class GPU

A good fit for the provider's documented UI workflow.

Serverless vLLM for smaller models; dedicated Pods for multi-GPU models Open runbook →
Vast.ai Single-node

1x H100/A100 80GB-class GPU

Fits the provider's standard dedicated or managed endpoint path.

A Docker template attached to a matching GPU marketplace offer Open runbook →
Lambda Single-node

1x H100/A100 80GB-class GPU

Fits the provider's standard dedicated or managed endpoint path.

An On-Demand Cloud instance, or a 1-Click Cluster for larger deployments Open runbook →
AWS Single-node

SageMaker/HyperPod GPU capacity with at least 1x H100/A100 80GB-class accelerators

Fits the provider's standard dedicated or managed endpoint path.

SageMaker HyperPod with a Hugging Face model source and vLLM/SGLang worker Open runbook →
Google Cloud Single-node

Vertex AI GPU deployment with at least 1x H100/A100 80GB-class accelerators

Fits the provider's standard dedicated or managed endpoint path.

A custom vLLM container in Vertex AI, backed by Artifact Registry Open runbook →
Azure Single-node

Azure ML GPU deployment with at least 1x H100/A100 80GB-class accelerators

Fits the provider's standard dedicated or managed endpoint path.

Azure Machine Learning online endpoint with a bring-your-own vLLM/SGLang container Open runbook →
Oracle Cloud Single-node

OCI GPU shape with at least 1x H100/A100 80GB-class accelerators

Fits the provider's standard dedicated or managed endpoint path.

OCI Generative AI imported models when supported; OKE vLLM otherwise Open runbook →

Prove the runtime before chasing max context

Start at 32,768 tokens, confirm all GPUs are visible, load the official chat template, and send a short request. Increase context and concurrency only after recording free VRAM.

What is measured vs estimated

Rank comes from observed OpenRouter ordering. Parameters, context, license, and runtime notes come from the linked model card. The 1×80GB hardware figure is a planning floor with runtime and KV-cache headroom.

Hand this runbook to Claude Code or Codex

Open a terminal in the repository where you want the deployment files, start claude or codex, then paste this prompt. It asks the agent to verify sources and stop before it creates billable infrastructure.

Deployment prompt
Prepare a reproducible deployment project for North Mini Code 1.0 (CohereLabs/North-Mini-Code-1.0); ask me to choose a provider before writing provider-specific infrastructure. Use this guide as the starting context: https://www.getflops.ai/models/north-mini-code-1.0. Use a planning floor of 1x 80GB GPUs, 100GB storage, vllm latest, and an initial context limit of 32768 tokens. Open every linked primary source and flag any mismatch instead of guessing. Create a deployment folder containing README.md, .env.example with no secrets, a pinned start script or infrastructure manifest, and smoke-test.sh. Make the endpoint OpenAI-compatible where the runtime supports it. Run local/static validation, estimate the billable resources, and stop before provisioning paid infrastructure until I approve.
Guardrails included No secrets in files · verify primary docs · approval before spend

Verify before provisioning

Research checked 2026-07-27. Provider inventory and inference-engine support can change faster than this page.