North Small Translate
North Small Translate is a dedicated text translation model supporting more than 50 languages. Its 218B-parameter mixture-of-experts network activates 25B parameters and targets long-form translation with efficient serving. Open weights are available in several precisions under CC BY-NC 4.0, while commercial use requires appropriate licensing. It can be evaluated through Cohere’s Chat API and a public demo. The release date follows the September 9 API changelog; the launch blog followed on September 10. Translation quality claims depend on the specific language pair, domain, and evaluation method.
2026-09-09
218B total, 25B active
Mixture of Experts
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Specifications
- Parameters
- 218B total, 25B active
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Context Window
- 16,000 tokens
- Max Output
- 16,000 tokens
- Type
- text
- Modalities
- text
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- North
- API Access
- Available
- Chat Interface
- Available
- Multilingual Support
- Yes
- Variants
- north-small-translate-1-0W4A16FP8BF16
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- translationmultilinguallong-form translation
- Known Limitations
- Downloaded weights are licensed for non-commercial useSpecialized for translation rather than general agentsQuality varies by language pair and domain
- Notable Use Cases
- document translationlocalization researchprivate translation evaluation