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Llama Guard 3 8B vs North Mini Code
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated August 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 7 | |
| Family | Llama | North |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Feb 2025 | Jun 2026 |
| Context Window | 131K tokens | 262K tokens |
| Input Price | $0.48/M tokens | Free |
| Output Price | $0.03/M tokens | Free |
| Pricing Notes | — | 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 | textcode | reasoningagentic-codingtool-usestructured-outputmultilinguallocal-deployment |
| Max Output | 100 tokens | 66K tokens |
| API Identifier | meta-llama/llama-guard-3-8b | north-mini-code-1-0 |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LG3 English safety F1 | 93.9meta | — |
| LG3 English safety AUPRC | 98.5meta | — |
| LG3 tool-use safety F1 | 85.6meta | — |
| LG3 code-interpreter safety F1 | 88.5meta | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 | — | 20artificial-analysis |
| View Llama Guard 3 8B | View North Mini Code | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Mini CodeCheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| Llama Guard 3 8B | $0.48 | $0.02 | $0.50 | +0% |
Meta
Llama Guard 3 8B
Llama Guard 3 8B is a Meta safety-classification model for prompt and response moderation across English, multilingual, search, and code-interpreter use cases.
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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