cohere/north-mini-code:free

Tested First tested 2026-11-11 · OpenRouter free lane

Cohere North Mini Code free lane: IFEval-50 91.8%, GSM8K-50 80.0% with zero failures, SVG 98/250 over 5 judged tests. New best IFEval on the board; the code specialist also drew the best pelican yet (34/50). Its first clock attempt was 20k chars of Python that never emitted SVG, redone cleanly at 32k.

Scores

Suite	Score
IFEval-50 prompt-strict	91.8% (n=49)
IFEval-50 instruction-strict	93.7% (n=49)
GSM8K-50	80.0% (40/50)
SVG blind rubric	98/250

Artifacts

Blind-judged by nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl:free: the judge saw the brief and the rendered image only, never the model name. Briefs are frozen; expand one to read it.

beach · 15/50

Brief fidelity (3/10): Most requested subjects are missing or unrecognizable: no palm tree, dolphins, sailboat, birds, or starfish are clearly depicted; only the sun, sea, and sky are present.
Construction (3/10): Objects are reduced to primitive geometric shapes (diamonds, circles, X, curves) with no anatomical assembly or recognizable object parts.
Composition (4/10): The frame uses a clear horizon and places the sun low on the right, but perspective and relative sizes are not coherent and elements feel scattered.
Detail finish (2/10): The image is extremely sparse with no shading, textures, or small finishing touches; it reads as an unfinished sketch rather than a detailed illustration.
Visual appeal (3/10): The warm-to-teal gradient is pleasant, but the excessive abstraction and lack of detail keep it from being visually compelling or charming.

Brief

Draw a beautiful sunset beach scene: a large sun sitting low over the sea with a shimmering reflection path on the water, a leaning palm tree silhouette on the left, two dolphins arcing out of the waves, a small sailboat on the right, birds in the sky, sandy foreground with a starfish. Warm oranges and pinks fading to teal. Coherent perspective: distant objects smaller and hazier than near ones. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

clock · 19/50

Brief fidelity (2/10): Only the circular rim and two numerals (12 and 1) are present; all hands, most numerals, tick marks, and the DRACON text are missing.
Construction (5/10): The visible circle and numerals are geometrically simple and intact, but the drawing is skeletal with no hands or additional parts to assemble.
Composition (5/10): The dial is roughly centered but sits high in the frame with large empty space below, and the missing elements leave the composition unbalanced.
Detail finish (3/10): No broken markup is evident, but the brief's required details, hands, ticks, and branding, are entirely absent.
Visual appeal (4/10): The stark black-and-white palette is coherent, but the near-empty clock face lacks charm or visual interest.

Brief

Draw a round wall clock face showing exactly 10:10: a circular dial with all 12 hour numerals in the correct positions, minute tick marks, an hour hand pointing just past 10, a minute hand pointing exactly at 2, and a thin second hand pointing at 6. The word DRACON in small capitals under the center. Dark rim, light face, flat vector style, centered composition. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

duo · 20/50

Brief fidelity (5/10): The dog, raccoon, jet ski, sea spray, sun, clouds, and shoreline are present, but the paws-on-handlebars and leaning-into-a-turn poses are not clearly readable, and the figures are too small to register as actively driving or holding on.
Construction (4/10): All shapes are assembled rather than melted or duplicated, but the anatomy is extremely reduced to simple blobs and the jet ski is a basic geometric form, so bodies and object parts lack convincing construction.
Composition (3/10): The subjects are crowded into the bottom-left corner with a vast empty sky and flat horizontal bands, giving poor use of the frame and no meaningful perspective or relative scale.
Detail finish (4/10): There is no shading or texture, and the scene is very sparse, though the markup appears clean with no cut-off edges or stray broken shapes.
Visual appeal (4/10): The palette is coherent and the linework is clean, but the illustration is so minimal and empty that it lacks charm and would not strike most visitors as a finished, appealing cartoon.

Brief

Draw a comical scene: a dog driving a jet ski at speed, paws on the handlebars, with a raccoon riding behind holding on, both leaning into a turn. Sea spray behind the jet ski, sun and clouds in the sky, a distant shoreline. Both characters must be clearly doing something, not just posed side by side. Bright cartoon vector style. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

monalisa · 10/50

Brief fidelity (1/10): The image contains none of the requested portrait elements, no seated woman, three-quarter view, enigmatic smile, parted hair, river, bridge, or mountains, so it fails nearly every headline requirement.
Construction (2/10): There is no recognizable anatomy, face, or hands; the figure is reduced to a circle, rectangle, and dot with no assembled body parts.
Composition (3/10): The layout is centered and uses the frame, but it does not establish a bust portrait or hazy landscape background as requested.
Detail finish (2/10): The artwork lacks shading, textures, neckline detail, facial features, or any small touches from the brief, presenting only flat geometric shapes.
Visual appeal (2/10): The muted palette is coherent but the result is abstract and empty rather than charming or confident as a Mona Lisa reinterpretation.

Brief

Redraw the Mona Lisa as a flat vector portrait, bust composition: a seated woman in three-quarter view facing the viewer, dark dress with neckline detail, hands folded at the bottom edge, soft enigmatic smile, hair parted in the middle. Behind her a hazy landscape with a winding river, a bridge on the right, and blue mountains. Muted greens, browns, and smoky blues. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

pelican · 34/50

Brief fidelity (8/10): All requested elements are present in abstract form, including the beak with pouch, long neck, folded wing, webbed feet, and sky/sea horizon, though the pouch is minimally suggested.
Construction (6/10): The bird is assembled from clean geometric shapes but the anatomy is highly stylized, with a blocky body and X-shaped feet that read more as symbols than realistic anatomy.
Composition (6/10): The pelican sits left of center facing the frame edge with a simple two-tone horizon, leaving ample negative space but creating a slightly cramped profile.
Detail finish (7/10): The flat vector style is executed cleanly with no broken edges or stray shapes, though detail is minimal beyond the white beak accent and X-foot markers.
Visual appeal (7/10): The limited brown-orange-blue palette is coherent and the minimalist aesthetic has quiet charm, though the simplicity borders on plain.

Brief

Draw a brown pelican standing in side profile, facing left, full body visible: large beak with throat pouch, long neck, folded wing, webbed feet on flat ground. Simple sky background with a hint of sea on the horizon. Flat vector style, clean shapes, limited palette. Output: exactly one self-contained SVG (viewBox "0 0 800 600", no external references) inside a single ```svg fenced block. Short prose outside the fence is allowed.

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Evidence and notes

Best IFEval-50 on the board: 91.8% (45/49)
Best single SVG test so far: pelican 34/50
First clock attempt emitted Python code instead of SVG (truncated); pruned and redone, scored 19/50
1 IFEval prompt unrecoverable (provider error, then reasoning burn), counted as failure