Cohere

Key facts: Cohere builds language models and APIs for enterprises: embeddings for search, reranking for retrieval quality, and chat models tuned for business use, with deployment options including cloud, private cloud and on-premises. Its retrieval stack is the core product, used to make AI answers grounded in company documents.

Plans: Cohere offers a free trial and pay-as-you-go API pricing, with enterprise plans for dedicated deployments and support. Check live API pricing, as embedding and rerank rates differ by model.

Best for: developers building search, retrieval and enterprise AI features. Watch out: Cohere is an API platform, not a chatbot app — it pays off when you are building a product, not just chatting. Who should skip it: anyone looking for a ready-made chatbot app rather than APIs to build with.

Pros

• Embeddings for search and reranking for retrieval quality, built for business use
• Chat models tuned for enterprise workloads rather than casual chat
• Flexible deployment: cloud, private cloud and on-premises
• Retrieval stack designed to ground AI answers in company documents

Watch out for

• It is an API platform, not a chatbot app, so it pays off when you are building a product, not just chatting
• Embedding and rerank rates differ by model, so costs depend on which models you call

Pricing

Cohere offers a free trial and pay-as-you-go API pricing, with enterprise plans for dedicated deployments and support. Check live API pricing, as embedding and rerank rates differ by model.

FAQs

Is Cohere a chatbot I can talk to? No, it is an API platform for developers building search, retrieval and enterprise AI features.

What is Cohere mainly used for? Its retrieval stack: embeddings for search and reranking for retrieval quality, grounded in company documents.

Can Cohere be deployed on-premises? Yes, deployment options include cloud, private cloud and on-premises.