Does Cohere North store data in Canada?

The facts, claim by claim

Where data is stored

Private deployments: "Run North in your own VPC, on-prem environment", so wherever you run it. Through Cohere's fully managed Model Vault: no region named on the pages read

Where it is processed

Wherever North and its models are deployed

Support and backups

Not stated on the pages read

Owner

Cohere Inc. (Toronto, ON), "a Canadian company subject to Canadian federal privacy laws" · Parent country: Canada

Servers run by

Your own servers or VPC, a cloud of your choice, or Cohere's Model Vault · Owner not stated

Customer-held keys

You hold the data in private deployments

Certifications

Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)

Worth knowing

The Canadian-owned assistant in this category. Cohere says it "does not have access to data processed in connection with the use of Cohere models or products in Private Deployments". North is not on Cohere's shared SaaS, which is "Available for model deployments only".

Caveats

Ask Cohere where a Model Vault deployment of North runs and who operates that data centre. Cohere signed a business combination agreement with Germany's Aleph Alpha (2026-09-16), still subject to regulatory approvals; re-check ownership when it closes.

What the rules say about this

• Nova Scotia public bodies: Storage and access must both be in Canada: check support access and backups, not only storage.
• Québec Law 25: Canada is not Québec: storage in Toronto still needs a privacy impact assessment for Québec data.
• OCAP®: Self-hosting on Nation-controlled or Canadian-owned infrastructure is the route to possession.

Summaries only; each rule page links the law or regulator. Not legal advice. Before you sign with Cohere North, ask the 15 questions in the printable vendor questionnaire.

Canadian alternatives to Cohere North

None found in this category yet: no Canadian-owned, non-US or self-hosted AI assistant could be confirmed. See AI assistants for every option, including US-owned ones with a Canadian region.

Sources

All checked 2026-10-17. Claims about storage and ownership rest on the vendor's own pages (or its parent's); supporting links can include regulators and program lists.

• Where the data is stored: https://cohere.com/north
• Who owns it: https://cohere.com/privacy
• Supporting page: https://cohere.com/deployment-options
• Supporting page: https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-sign-agreement

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