Cohere free tier includes AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 35 alternatives in AI / ML.
Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion; embeddings_api — returns a vector for text or media so it can be compared to other vectors; the vector is the output, not a completion; speech_api — converts recorded or streamed speech to text, or text to speech; document_extraction — turns a document or a scan into text or structured fields. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cohere.com/pricing, where it says: “Parse New Document parsing model” How we use this.
Cohere's free tier offers AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for ai / ml workloads — 35 alternatives available.
AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month. Trial rate limits: 20 requests a minute per Chat model, 2,000 Embed inputs a minute and 10 Rerank requests a minute. Trial keys can use all of Cohere's models and APIs. Production keys are pay-as-you-go. Prices per 1M tokens: Command R7B $0.0375/$0.15; Command R $0.15/$0.60. The pricing page lists Command A+ (Apache 2.0) at $0 through an API key and as a model download.
We read that on 2026-10-26 from https://cohere.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Cohere as "cohere" and states "$0.60". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
API calls made from a Trial API key are free. However, trial keys are rate limited and are not permitted to be used for production or commercial purposes.
How Cohere compares against every one of the 35 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
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| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Groq | Free Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day. |
caution |
| LLM7.io | Free LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice. |
caution |
| Hugging Face | Free ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models. |
caution |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset. |
caution |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI). |
stable |
| Pinecone | Free Vector database. The Starter plan is free: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units a month, 1 GB of egress a month (reads that return data stop at the cap until the next billing period), 5 indexes, 1 project and 2 users, on AWS us-east-1 only. |
stable |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, gpt-oss-20b, Gemma 4 31B and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, can be called at no cost. Their model IDs are deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, openai/gpt-oss-20b,… |
stable |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe… |
stable |
| Maxim AI | Free Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more. |
stable |
| Keywords AI | Free Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts. |
source unconfirmed |
| Pollinations.AI | Free Keyless Classic API: one image model and GPT-OSS 20B text, free, no sign-up, rate-limited per IP. Every other model needs an API key and Pollen, and free Pollen comes only from quests. |
caution |
| Google Gemini Embedding 2 | Free Free of charge text, image, audio, and video input on the Gemini API free tier, with Google using the content to improve its products. Batch is not available on the free tier. |
stable |
| OpenRouter | Free AI model router. Free plan: 50 requests a day, no BYOK. |
stable |
| OCR.Space | Free Free OCR API that parses image and PDF files and returns the text as JSON: 25,000 requests/month, 1 MB file size limit, 3-page PDF limit, 500 requests/day per IP address, plus 1,000 Engine 3 conversions/month, down from 2,500 in October 2026. Engine 1 is retired; OCR.Space redirects calls to it to… |
caution |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1. |
stable |
| Parseur | Free 20 free pages/month: Extract data from PDFs, emails. AI powered. |
stable |
| Reducto | Free Turn any unstructured documents (PDF, XLSX, JPG, PPTX, etc.) into structured JSON data. |
unrated |
| SiliconFlow | Free Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR… |
unrated |
| Zhipu AI | Free China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video). |
source unconfirmed |
| Portkey | Free Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month. |
unrated |
| Deepgram | Free Credits Speech-to-text and text-to-speech API — $200 free credits on signup (no credit card required), ~43K minutes transcription with Nova model, credits never expire. Access to all model endpoints
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stable |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started. |
unrated |
| Jina AI | Free Credits Search, Reader, embeddings and reranker APIs. Each new API key comes with 10M free tokens, shared across these APIs; no page says they renew. |
stable |
| AssemblyAI | Free Credits Speech-to-text and Speech Understanding API. New accounts get $50 in free credits with no credit card required; the credits do not expire and cover pre-recorded and streaming speech-to-text, the Voice Agent API, Speech Understanding and Guardrails, but not LLM Gateway. |
stable |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount. |
unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted. |
risky |
| Ollama Cloud | Pay-as-you-go Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs. Between October 26 and 27, 2026, Ollama replaced its Free plan, which included starter usage credits, with a $0 Pay as you go plan. |
unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go Grok API, pay as you go: sign up at console.x.ai, then load it with credits. grok-4.7 $2.00/$6.00 (per 1M tokens, under 200k prompt tokens). |
unrated |
| Mistral AI | Pay-as-you-go Since about 2026-11-05, Mistral's Free plan covers Vibe and Studio and does not include API access. Creating API keys and calling the API require billing activation and pay-as-you-go with prepaid credits. |
unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid. |
unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go AI API platform. One model is priced Free in OpenAI's own table: the moderation model omni-moderation-latest. |
unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go Pay-as-you-go LLM API with no free tier, billed from a prepaid balance. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (deepseek-flash): $0.30/M input, $1.20/M output at peak. |
unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired." |
source unconfirmed |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go MiniMax sells API access pay-as-you-go on platform.minimax.io. Its pricing pages list no free API allowance; one docs page mentions a free quota for new pay-as-you-go users but gives no amount. |
unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go Claude API with usage-based pricing per million tokens (input/output). Claude Fable 5.2 $8/$40. |
unrated |
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