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fern/pages/changelog/2026-09-09-north-small-translate-1-0.mdx

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+---
+title: Announcing Cohere's North Small Translate
+slug: "changelog/north-small-translate-1-0"
+createdAt: "Wed Sep 09 2026 09:00:00 (MST)"
+hidden: false
+description: >-
+  This announcement covers the release of North Small Translate, Cohere's open-weights machine translation model.
+---
+
+We're pleased to announce the release of
+[North Small Translate](/docs/north-small-translate-1.0), an open-weights mixture-of-experts model purpose-built
+for machine translation across more than 50 languages.
+
+North Small Translate is designed to give researchers, developers, and enterprises flexible ways to evaluate and
+deploy machine translation while retaining control over their data and infrastructure.
+
+## Key features
+
+- **Purpose-built translation**: Optimized for machine translation across more than 50 languages and locale
+  variants.
+- **Efficient MoE architecture**: 218 billion total parameters with 25 billion active parameters.
+- **Flexible deployment**: Available through the free-tier Chat V2 API, as FP8 open weights for non-commercial
+  use, and through Model Vault with a commercial license.
+- **Private deployment**: Suggested deployment hardware is two H100 GPUs or one B200 GPU.
+
+## Technical details
+
+- **Model name**: `north-small-translate-1-0`
+- **Context length**: 16K
+- **License**:
+  [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
+- **Open-weights format**: FP8
+
+## Availability
+
+North Small Translate is available on the free tier through the [Chat V2 API](/reference/chat). The
+[FP8 weights](https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Small-Translate-1.0-fp8) are available on Hugging Face
+for non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
+
+For production use, enterprises can purchase a commercial license and deploy North Small Translate through
+[Model Vault](/docs/model-vault).
+
+For supported languages, use cases, and an API example, see the
+[model documentation](/docs/north-small-translate-1.0).

fern/pages/model-vault/standard/pricing.mdx

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 | Command A Reasoning | $48.00 | $57.50 |
 | Command A+ | -- | $57.50 |
 | North Mini Code | -- | $57.50 |
+| North Small Translate | -- | $57.50 |
 
 Monthly and annual commitment pricing follows the same Fixed and Flex plans described above;
 [contact Cohere](https://cohere.com/contact-sales) for those rates and for access. Generative access

fern/pages/model-vault/standard/supported-models.mdx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The following Cohere model families are available in a Standard Vault. For the d
 | Model family | Type |
 | --- | --- |
 | Command | Generative, including reasoning, multimodal, and translation variants |
-| North | Generative and agentic bundles, including North Mini Code |
+| North | Generative models, including North Mini Code and North Small Translate |
 | Embed | Embeddings |
 | Rerank | Reranker |
 | Parse | Vision parser |

fern/pages/models/models.mdx

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   generative AI. Aya Expanse covers 23 languages, and Aya Vision is fully multimodal, allowing you to pass 
   in images and text and get a single coherent response. Both are available on the [Chat](../reference/chat) 
   endpoint.
+- The North family includes purpose-built models such as
+  [North Small Translate](north-small-translate-1.0) for machine translation and
+  [North Mini Code](north-mini-code-1.0) for agentic coding. Both are available through the
+  [Chat](../reference/chat) endpoint and support production deployment through Model Vault.
 
 ## Command
 
@@ -91,6 +95,16 @@ In this table, we provide some important context for using Cohere Command models
 | `command-light`                  | `cohere.command-light-text-v14` | N/A                   | N/A                      | `cohere.command-light v15.6`     |
 | `command-light-nightly`          | N/A                             | N/A                   | N/A                      | N/A                              |
 
+## North
+
+North is Cohere's family of purpose-built generative models. North models are available on the Cohere API for
+evaluation and through [Model Vault](../../v2/docs/model-vault) for production deployment.
+
+| Model Name | Status | Description | Modality | Context Length | Maximum Output Tokens | Endpoints |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| `north-small-translate-1-0` | Live | [North Small Translate](north-small-translate-1.0) is a 218B total / 25B active parameter MoE model purpose-built for machine translation across more than 50 languages. | Text | 16k | 16k | [Chat](../reference/chat) |
+| `north-mini-code-1-0` | Live | [North Mini Code](north-mini-code-1.0) is a 30B total / 3B active parameter MoE model trained for agentic coding. | Text | 256k | 64k | [Chat](../reference/chat) |
+
 ## Embed
 
 These models can be used to generate embeddings from text or classify it based on various parameters. Embeddings can be used for estimating semantic similarity between two sentences, choosing a sentence which is most likely to follow another sentence, or categorizing user feedback. The Representation model comes with a variety of helper functions, such as for detecting the language of an input.

fern/pages/models/north/north-small-translate-1.0.mdx

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+---
+title: North Small Translate
+slug: docs/north-small-translate-1.0
+hidden: false
+description: >-
+  North Small Translate is a 218B total / 25B active parameter MoE model purpose-built for machine translation across more than 50 languages.
+image: ../../../assets/images/edb3e49-cohere_meta_image.jpg
+keywords: 'generative AI, Cohere, North, machine translation, multilingual AI'
+createdAt: 'Wed Sep 9th 2026'
+updatedAt: ''
+layout: overview
+---
+
+import { ModelShowcase, Capability, Endpoint} from "../../../components/model-showcase"
+
+<ModelShowcase model={{
+  name: 'North Small Translate',
+  id: 'north-small-translate-1-0',
+  capabilities: [
+    Capability.Multilingual,
+  ],
+  specs: {
+    contextWindow: '16K',
+    maxOutputTokens: '16K',
+    customSpecs: [
+      { name: 'Model Size', value: '218B total / 25B active' },
+      { name: 'Suggested Hardware', value: '2 × H100 or 1 × B200' },
+    ],
+  },
+  endpoints: [
+    Endpoint.ChatV2,
+  ],
+  usageMessage: <p>North Small Translate can be used in production with a commercial license through Cohere's <a href="../../v2/docs/model-vault" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Model Vault</a>.</p>
+}}/>
+
+## Description
+
+North Small Translate is an open-weights mixture-of-experts (MoE) model purpose-built for machine translation.
+It has 218 billion total parameters, with 25 billion active parameters, and a 16K context length.
+
+The model provides flexible deployment options for research and enterprise use. Its FP8 weights are available
+under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
+for non-commercial use. Enterprises can purchase a commercial license and deploy the model through
+[Model Vault](../../v2/docs/model-vault).
+
+## What can North Small Translate be used for?
+
+North Small Translate is well-suited for:
+
+- **Knowledge management**: Translate internal documentation, wikis, standard operating procedures, technical
+  manuals, historical reports, and institutional knowledge.
+- **Safety and operations**: Translate safety manuals, emergency procedures, maintenance instructions,
+  manufacturing procedures, incident reports, field-service documentation, and operational alerts.
+- **Internal communication**: Translate company announcements, leadership communications, HR policies,
+  employee handbooks, benefits information, onboarding materials, newsletters, and intranet content.
+- **Localization and customer support**: Translate product content and customer communications while retaining
+  control over where the model and data are hosted.
+
+## Supported languages
+
+North Small Translate supports English and more than 50 language and locale variants. Its tier-one languages are
+Modern Standard Arabic, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Ukrainian.
+
+<Accordion title="European languages">
+
+- Bulgarian
+- Croatian
+- Czech
+- Danish
+- Dutch
+- Estonian
+- Finnish
+- French
+- German
+- Greek
+- Hungarian
+- Irish
+- Italian
+- Latvian
+- Lithuanian
+- Maltese
+- Polish
+- Portuguese (Portugal)
+- Romanian
+- Slovak
+- Slovenian
+- Spanish
+- Swedish
+
+</Accordion>
+
+<Accordion title="All supported languages and locale variants">
+
+- Albanian
+- Arabic (Egyptian)
+- Arabic (Modern Standard)
+- Arabic (Saudi)
+- Bengali
+- Bulgarian
+- Catalan
+- Chinese (Simplified)
+- Chinese (Traditional)
+- Croatian
+- Czech
+- Danish
+- Dutch
+- English
+- Estonian
+- Filipino
+- Finnish
+- French
+- German
+- Greek
+- Hebrew
+- Hindi
+- Hungarian
+- Icelandic
+- Indonesian
+- Irish
+- Italian
+- Japanese
+- Korean
+- Latvian
+- Lithuanian
+- Malay
+- Maltese
+- Norwegian Bokmål
+- Persian
+- Polish
+- Portuguese (Portugal)
+- Punjabi
+- Romanian
+- Russian
+- Serbian (Cyrillic)
+- Slovak
+- Slovenian
+- Spanish
+- Swedish
+- Tamil
+- Telugu
+- Thai
+- Turkish
+- Ukrainian
+- Urdu
+- Vietnamese
+
+</Accordion>
+
+## Getting started
+
+North Small Translate is available on the free tier through the [Chat V2 API](/reference/chat). Ask the model to
+translate the supplied content into a target language:
+
+```python PYTHON
+from cohere import ClientV2
+
+co = ClientV2(api_key="<YOUR_API_KEY>")
+
+target_language = "French"
+content = "Enterprises need accurate translations of business-critical documents."
+
+response = co.chat(
+    model="north-small-translate-1-0",
+    messages=[
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": f"Translate everything that follows into {target_language}:\n\n{content}",
+        }
+    ],
+)
+
+print(response.message.content[0].text)
+```
+
+## Deployment and licensing
+
+- **Cohere API**: Try the model on the free tier through the Chat V2 API.
+- **Open weights**: Download the
+  [FP8 model from Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/North-Small-Translate-1.0-fp8) for
+  non-commercial use under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
+- **Commercial deployment**: Use a commercially licensed deployment through [Model Vault](../../v2/docs/model-vault).
+  The suggested hardware is two H100 GPUs or one B200 GPU.
+
+## Frequently asked questions
+
+### What is machine translation?
+
+Machine translation uses software to convert text from one language into another. A purpose-built generative model
+can act as the translation engine in an application, workflow, or translation platform.
+
+### Why use a machine translation model?
+
+A model gives developers control over integration, prompting, deployment, data residency, and customization.
+Self-hosted and private deployments can also support sovereignty requirements and reduce dependence on a fixed
+translation platform.
+
+### When is a translation platform a better fit?
+
+A translation platform wraps a model with features such as collaboration, content management, project management,
+and formatting. Use a platform when those workflow features are more important than direct control over the model.

fern/v1.yml

@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ navigation:
             path: pages/models/cohere-embed.mdx
           - section: North
             contents:
+              - page: North Small Translate
+                path: pages/models/north/north-small-translate-1.0.mdx
               - page: North Mini Code
                 path: pages/models/north/north-mini-code-1.0.mdx
           - page: Rerank

fern/v2.yml

@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ navigation:
             path: pages/models/cohere-embed.mdx
           - section: North
             contents:
+              - page: North Small Translate
+                path: pages/models/north/north-small-translate-1.0.mdx
               - page: North Mini Code
                 path: pages/models/north/north-mini-code-1.0.mdx
           - page: Rerank