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Digby vs Cohere North

Both are Canadian, and both take data control seriously. North is an enterprise platform you deploy; Digby is an assistant anyone can open today — that can also be self-hosted.

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At a glance

Feature	Digby	Cohere North
Company	Built in Canada	Cohere, Toronto
Who it is for	Individuals, families, teams and organisations	Large enterprises, regulated industries and the public sector
Getting started	Open digby.ai — free, no account needed	Enterprise sales and deployment
Deployment	Hosted in Canada, or self-hosted on your servers	Private: on-premises, VPC, hybrid or air-gapped
Models	Custom-tuned open-weight models from several labs	Cohere’s Command models, or the customer’s own
Price	Free to start	Contact sales

Cohere North details from Cohere’s published pages as of October 2026.

Two kinds of sovereignty

Cohere North is built to be deployed inside an organisation’s own environment — on-premises, in a private cloud, even fully air-gapped — where Cohere says the data is never accessible to Cohere. It is sold to enterprises and governments; the Government of Canada signed a partnership with Cohere in 2025.

Digby gives anyone a Canadian-hosted assistant straight away: conversations stored in Canada, answers from models on Canadian hardware, and a self-hosted path for organisations that need the whole stack on their own servers.

Sources Cohere — deployment optionsCohere — introducing North 2Government of Canada — partnership with Cohere (Aug 2025)

Which to choose

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Cohere North
a large organisation ready for an enterprise deployment of agents across internal systems.
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Digby
a person, family or team that wants a capable Canadian assistant today, with a path to self-hosting later.

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No procurement, no install: open digby.ai and ask. If your organisation needs Digby on its own infrastructure, email us.

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Questions to ask either one

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Where is our data stored at rest, and where do prompts get processed?
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Which models are available, and can we bring or change our own?
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What does a private or self-hosted deployment involve, and who operates it?
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How do users see and control what the assistant remembers?
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What does it cost for the number of people who will actually use it?

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Frequently asked questions

Is Cohere Canadian?

Yes. Cohere is headquartered in Toronto. Digby is also built in Canada.

Can I try Cohere North myself?

North is sold to organisations through Cohere’s sales team. Digby is free to try at digby.ai without an account.

Which is more private?

Both can keep data under your control: North through private deployment inside your own environment, Digby through Canadian hosting by default and self-hosting for organisations that need it. The better fit depends on who will use it and how much infrastructure you want to run.