Language modelOpen weights
North-Small-Translate-1.0
Cohere
- Released
- September 10, 2026
- Data date
- October 3, 2026
North-Small-Translate-1.0 focuses Cohere Labs’ MoE architecture on translation across more than 50 languages. It activates 25 billion of its 218 billion parameters. Translation takes priority over general chat, with context and maximum output limited to 16K tokens each.
The published weights use CC BY-NC 4.0 for non-commercial use. Cohere also offers a Chat V2 API, free up to its applicable rate limit and governed by separate commercial agreements.
Specifications and access
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Model class | Mixture-of-experts model for machine translationSource |
| Parameters | 218 billion total, 25 billion activeSource |
| Context window | 16K tokens according to CohereSource |
| Maximum output | 16K tokens according to CohereSource |
| API model ID | north-small-translate-1-0Source |
| API interface | Cohere Chat V2Source |
| Modalities | Text input and text outputSource |
| Languages | More than 50 languagesSource |
| Access | API and downloadable weightsSource |
| License | CC BY-NC 4.0Source |
| Model ID | CohereLabs/North-Small-Translate-1.0Source |
Measurements without matching peer values
These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
WMT26 standard (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 83.6
- Score
- 83.6
- Metric
- WMT26 standard reported score
- Unit
- No unit provided
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- cohere.com
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Cohere evaluation, GPT-5.6-Sol judge. Agentic is a distinct workflow and must not be assigned to the standard checkpoint result.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. The source table does not state a unit or scale for this numeric score.
WMT26 agentic (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 84.36
- Score
- 84.36
- Metric
- WMT26 agentic reported score
- Unit
- No unit provided
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- cohere.com
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Cohere evaluation, GPT-5.6-Sol judge. Agentic is a distinct workflow and must not be assigned to the standard checkpoint result.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. The source table does not state a unit or scale for this numeric score.
standard EU (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 82.17
- Score
- 82.17
- Metric
- standard EU reported score
- Unit
- No unit provided
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- cohere.com
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Cohere evaluation, GPT-5.6-Sol judge. Agentic is a distinct workflow and must not be assigned to the standard checkpoint result.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. The source table does not state a unit or scale for this numeric score.
standard non-EU Europe (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 81.24
- Score
- 81.24
- Metric
- standard non-EU Europe reported score
- Unit
- No unit provided
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- cohere.com
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Cohere evaluation, GPT-5.6-Sol judge. Agentic is a distinct workflow and must not be assigned to the standard checkpoint result.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. The source table does not state a unit or scale for this numeric score.
standard South Asia (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 86.16
- Score
- 86.16
- Metric
- standard South Asia reported score
- Unit
- No unit provided
- Category
- source-specific
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source type
- vendor-reported
- Evaluator
- cohere.com
- Status
- active
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-04
- Methodology
- Vendor-reported result. Cohere evaluation, GPT-5.6-Sol judge. Agentic is a distinct workflow and must not be assigned to the standard checkpoint result.
- Context
- Source-specific observation; it is not a shared comparison cohort. The source table does not state a unit or scale for this numeric score.
Published prices
Prices apply to the stated unit. Resolution, output length, and provider can change the cost.
- API price
- Free for trial and production keys up to the applicable rate limit; commercial agreement terms applySource
Sources and data date
Every statement links to its underlying documentation or leaderboard.
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Research status | Research date October 4, 2026. 1 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Additional source | Cohere North Small Translate announcement (retrieved October 3, 2026; October 4, 2026) · Cohere North Small Translate announcement · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026 |
| Additional source | Cohere API changelog (retrieved October 3, 2026) · Cohere API changelog · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026 |
| Additional source | Cohere North Small Translate documentation (retrieved October 3, 2026) · Cohere North Small Translate documentation · Editorial description reviewed October 4, 2026 |