North
6.2/10Cohere North is an enterprise agentic AI platform. It combines search, generative models, agents and automations, and it can be deployed privately in a VPC or on-premises.
Data last updated November 2026 · Our methodology
Overview
North is Cohere's workspace for enterprise AI agents. It was announced in early access in January 2025 and became generally available in August 2025. It brings together Cohere's generative models, multimodal search through the Compass system, and agents that can act on internal company knowledge. Employees can ask questions grounded in company documents and get cited answers. They can also generate summaries, tables, charts and app-like outputs such as decks and dashboards, and build automations in natural language. The current version, branded North 2, adds reusable skills, shared libraries, memory, guardrails and an admin console. North's main differentiator is deployment: it can run in a customer's own VPC, on-premises, in air-gapped environments, or through Cohere's Model Vault inference platform. That makes it best suited to regulated industries such as banking, government, healthcare and legal. Royal Bank of Canada co-developed a banking edition, and customers named by Cohere or in press coverage include Dell, LG CNS, Fujitsu, Bell and Ensemble Health Partners. Pricing is not published. Cohere quotes custom enterprise pricing, and one third-party aggregator says contracts are annual and start around 100,000 dollars a year, though Cohere has not confirmed that figure. North connects to existing tools through APIs and built-in connectors, but its integration ecosystem is smaller than those of Microsoft Copilot or Google's agent tools. Setup and data integration also take real effort, which makes it a poor fit for small teams.
Our Rating
Who North is best for
Good fit
North is built for large regulated organizations that need private or air-gapped deployment, and its named customers include RBC and Dell.
RBC co-developed a banking edition, and it can be deployed privately or air-gapped.
The vendor targets government, and air-gapped and on-premises deployment is available.
Healthcare is a named target, and Ensemble Health Partners is a named customer.
- Legal7/10
Legal is named as a target regulated industry, and answers cite their source documents.
Less suited
McKinsey and Accenture appear among the logos on Cohere's page, and press coverage describes agents deployed for consultants.
- Finance Teams5/10
No-code agents for finance tasks are mentioned.
No-code agents for HR tasks are mentioned.
Agents for IT support tasks are mentioned, along with an admin console.
Custom enterprise pricing and the integration effort required make North heavy for mid-sized firms.
It is sold only through custom enterprise pricing.
There is no self-serve plan, and reported contract minimums are far beyond small-business budgets.
Contracts are estimated at about 100,000 dollars a year or more.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- It can be deployed in a customer's VPC, on-premises or in air-gapped environments, which suits regulated industries.
- Compass search pulls information from documents, slides, spreadsheets and images, and answers include citations to the source.
- Non-technical staff can build agents and automations without code for tasks in HR, finance and IT support.
- It has named enterprise customers, including RBC, which co-developed a banking edition.
Cons
- There is no public pricing, and a third-party estimate puts contracts at around 100,000 dollars a year or more.
- Setup and data integration take significant effort.
- Its third-party integration ecosystem is smaller than those of Microsoft Copilot or Google's offerings.
- Independent user reviews on the major review sites are scarce.
Key Features
North Pricing
Enterprise
- Agents, search and automations
- Custom enterprise pricing via demo request
- Private VPC, on-premises or Model Vault deployment
Frequently Asked Questions
Cohere does not publish North pricing and quotes custom enterprise pricing after a demo request. One third-party aggregator reports annual contracts starting around 100,000 dollars a year, but Cohere has not confirmed this.
Yes. North can be deployed in your own VPC or on-premises, including air-gapped environments, or hosted through Cohere's Model Vault.
Yes. It launched in early access in January 2025 and reached general availability in August 2025.
Cohere says North offers APIs and built-in connectors to existing tools, data sources and monitoring systems. Reviewers note that its ecosystem is smaller than Microsoft's.
No self-serve trial was confirmed. Access starts with a demo request, and an aggregator mentions proof-of-concept pilots.
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