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Cactus Needle 2 vs North Mini Code
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 7 | |
| Family | Needle | North |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| Context Window | 256 tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | Free | Free |
| Output Price | Free | Free |
| Pricing Notes | Apache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing. | Cohere's official model documentation states North Mini Code is free for trial and production API keys until rate limits are reached; Model Vault production deployment is also supported. |
| Capabilities | tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline | reasoningagentic-codingtool-usestructured-outputmultilinguallocal-deployment |
| Max Output | 256 tokens | 66K tokens |
| API Identifier | Cactus-Compute/needle2 | north-mini-code-1-0 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match | 63.7cactus-compute | — |
| BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall | 42.6cactus-compute | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 | — | 20artificial-analysis |
| View Cactus Needle 2 | View North Mini Code | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus Needle 2Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| North Mini CodeCheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
Cactus Compute
Cactus Needle 2
Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.
Cohere
North Mini Code
North Mini Code is Cohere's open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model for agentic coding, repository-level software engineering, terminal workflows, tool use, and local deployment.
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