Cohere review

Input starts at $0.30 to $3 and output at $0.60 to $15 for its production models. Both sit above the medians of €0.08 and €0.23 across ranked providers. Smaller models in the catalogue sit at the lower end of each range.

A free trial API key gives free but rate limited calls, and it is not valid for production or commercial use. That makes it a fit for evaluation and prototyping rather than a live workload. Paid rates start once you move to a production key.

Yes. The compatibility API lets existing OpenAI style clients point at Cohere models with limited changes. That cuts migration work when a team already has chat and embedding calls written against that shape.

The catalogue in Command A+ (command a plus 05 2026), Command A (command a 03 2025) and Command A Reasoning (command a reasoning 08 2025) covers Command models for generation, reasoning, vision and translate, plus Embed, Rerank, Parse and Transcribe variants. Aya and North entries add multilingual, vision and code options. Generation, ranking and transcription stay on one vendor.

The largest context window is 256,000. That ranks 55 of 72 on the site, and the field median is 1,000,000. Worth checking against the median if you are planning very long documents.

The stated cover is SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA, which is the usual checklist for regulated buyers. The listed set includes GDPR and CCPA alongside SOC 2 and ISO 27001. No licences or regulators are listed beyond these.

Cohere Inc. is headquartered in Canada, and was founded in 2019. Support runs through email, help centre and community, so there is no live chat or phone line. Budget for email and community help on non urgent issues.

Azure AI Foundry serves gpt 6 astra, gpt 6 luna and gpt 6 sol, so it wins on catalogue breadth across providers. Supascale AI routes DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT 5.6 Sol and GPT 5.6 Terra, useful when you want to switch families without changing vendors. Salad starts at $0.06 for the lowest entry price.