When was North Micro Vision Instruct released?

North Micro Vision Instruct was released on August 12, 2026 by Cohere. This is the official North Micro Vision Instruct release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is North Micro Vision Instruct?

North Micro Vision Instruct has 2.4 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created North Micro Vision Instruct?

North Micro Vision Instruct was created by Cohere.

What is the license for North Micro Vision Instruct?

North Micro Vision Instruct is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is North Micro Vision Instruct multimodal?

Yes, North Micro Vision Instruct is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where is the North Micro Vision Instruct paper or technical report?

North Micro Vision Instruct has a paper or technical report available at https://huggingface.co/blog/CohereLabs/meet-north-micro-vision-instruct. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare North Micro Vision Instruct against?

Common North Micro Vision Instruct comparisons include North Micro Vision Instruct vs Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, North Micro Vision Instruct vs DeepSeek VL2 Small, North Micro Vision Instruct vs Phi-3.5-vision-instruct. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.

North Micro Vision Instruct API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Name: North Micro Vision Instruct
Author: Cohere

North Micro Vision Instruct: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

North Micro Vision Instruct is a language model from Cohere, released in August 2026, with multimodal input.

Compact open-weight vision-language model (2.4B) with native-resolution image support for VQA, captioning, grounding, OCR, charts, and documents. Custom 400M SigLIP 2-based vision encoder + 2B North Micro LLM backbone (Command A+ style).

North Micro Vision Instruct benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for North Micro Vision Instruct across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How North Micro Vision Instruct holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

North Micro Vision Instruct Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

llm-stats.com - Mon Sep 07 2026

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North Micro Vision Instruct model size

North Micro Vision Instruct has 2.4 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters

2.4B

Small (<3B)

2.4B

1B7B70B405B

North Micro Vision Instruct latency

North Micro Vision Instruct time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

North Micro Vision Instruct examples

Recent arena outputs from North Micro Vision Instruct, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

North Micro Vision Instruct license

North Micro Vision Instruct is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 2.4B parameters.

License: Apache 2.0; Commercial use allowed
Parameters: 2.4B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

North Micro Vision Instruct resources

Official sources for North Micro Vision Instruct: official launch post, source repository.

North Micro Vision Instruct vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to North Micro Vision Instruct are Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, DeepSeek VL2 Small, Phi-3.5-vision-instruct. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.