What is Cohere?
Enterprise models and a secure AI workspace for teams.
Who is Cohere best for?
Cohere is best for regulated firms that want private AI agents and search.
Regulated industries
Banks, health and public sector teams can run North and the models in an isolated cloud or on their own servers, so documents stay under their control.
Company-wide search and agents
North and Compass connect to internal systems to answer staff questions and take on routine back-office and support tasks.
Developers building search and RAG
Embed and Rerank handle retrieval and ranking in over 100 languages, and Parse turns documents into structured text, billed per token, search or page.
Teams that want open models
Command A+ and North Mini Code come under the Apache 2.0 license, so you can download and host them yourself.
How much does Cohere cost?
Cohere prices its North workspace per company on request, while its models are pay as you go through the API, from $0.0375 per million input tokens for Command R7B, and every account starts with a free, rate-limited trial key.
- Created automatically with every account
- Free API calls with rate limits
- Not allowed for production or commercial use
- Smallest model, built for commodity GPUs and edge devices
- 128K-token context, up to 4K output tokens
- Mid-sized model balancing speed and quality
- 128K-token context, up to 4K output tokens
- AI workspace with chat, search and agents for routine work
- Private deployment in your own cloud or on premises
- Compass enterprise search is also priced on request
Command A+ and the North Mini Code coding model are listed at $0, both through an API key and as downloads under the Apache 2.0 license. Embed 4 costs $0.12 per million tokens ($0.47 per million image tokens), Rerank 4 Fast $2.00 and Rerank 4 Pro $2.50 per 1,000 searches, and Parse 5 $1.50 per 1,000 pages. Dedicated Model Vault instances run from $4 an hour or $2,500 a month up to $10 an hour or $6,500 a month, and Transcribe starts at $3.75 an hour per instance there. Production keys are billed at the end of each month, or sooner when the balance reaches $250. Full pricing on cohere.com. We checked these prices on .
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Questions about Cohere
What is Cohere?
Enterprise models and a secure AI workspace for teams.
Who is Cohere for?
Cohere is best for regulated firms that want private AI agents and search.
Is Cohere free?
Cohere is free to try: every account gets a trial API key at no cost, but it is rate limited and not allowed for production or commercial use. Command A+ and North Mini Code are listed at $0, while production use of other models is pay as you go and North is priced for companies on request.
How much does Cohere cost?
Cohere's paid plans are Command R7B at $0.0375 / $0.15 per million input / output tokens and Command R at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input / output tokens.
What are the best Cohere alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Mistral AI.
Where can I try Cohere?
On its official website, cohere.com.
How does Cohere bill API usage?
Cohere bills Production API keys pay as you go, by tokens for chat and embedding models, by searches for Rerank and by pages for Parse. The bill comes at the end of each calendar month, or earlier once the unpaid balance reaches $250, and production access needs an application.
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