Catalog/ № 007
Cohere
situationalEnterprise-focused models — Command for generation, Rerank for retrieval.
docs.cohere.comVerified 2026-08-15
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Rerank is the quietly essential product — it improves any RAG pipeline regardless of your LLM. The Command chat models are solid but not the reason to come.
Known limitations
- Chat models trail frontier quality.
- Enterprise-sales motion makes self-serve feel second-class.
- Pricing pages for newer models are confusing.
Facts
- pricing
- freemium1
- price note
- free trial keys; pay-as-you-go from $0.50/1M input tokens
- free tier
- yes
- open source
- no
- api
- yes
- self-host
- no
- category
- models-api
Sources
If we can't show the source, we don't print the number.
Same shelf — models-api
Anthropic API
models-api
Claude models direct — the practitioner's pick for coding and long-form text.
API
paidpay-as-you-go, from $1/1M input (Haiku 4.5); small free credits for new users
DeepSeek API
models-api
Open-weights lab with frontier-ish reasoning at disruptive prices.
API
paidno free API tier; V4 Flash $0.44/$1.32, V4 Pro $1.32/$3.96 per 1M (peak; off-peak 50% off)
Google AI Studio / Gemini API
models-api
Gemini API with a real free tier — huge context, multimodal, generous limits.
APIFREE TIER
freemiumfree tier (text models); paid from $0.75/1M input (Gemini 3.6 Flash promo till 2027-01)