Cohere free tier includes AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 32 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 The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.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 — 32 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 2026-10-02 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 32 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| Reducto | Free | unrated |
| Pinecone | Free | stable |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Parseur | Free | stable |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| OCR.Space | Free | stable |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Hugging Face | Free | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Deepgram | Free Credits | stable |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| AssemblyAI | Free Credits | stable |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated — change unconfirmed |
| Google Gemini Embedding 2 | Pay-as-you-go | source unconfirmed |
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