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Cohere

Enterprise AI platform with generative models, search, and document processing.

Model hosting and inference

Price
from $10/hour
pay as you go, list price
Free tier
No
Real-world use
237 repos
public repos set up for AI agents that use its SDK · see
SDK downloads
2.6M
PyPI cohere
Status
—
no public status page

How Cohere compares

Cohere is one of 33 APIs in the Model hosting and inference category on AgentGid. It is not among the 14 that can be started for free. 6 of them ship an official MCP server; Cohere does not. Its official SDK is the 1st most downloaded in the category (2.6M a week). See the full table.

Pricing

Free tier—
Cheapest paid plan—
Usage price$1.00-$15.00/1M tokens (input/output) for legacy models; $3.00-$10.00/hour for Model Vault instances
Good to knowAdded automatically: its SDK is in 43 public agent repos we sampled; integrations in LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK. Prices read from the official pricing page.

From the official pricing page, checked Oct 11, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.

Use it from an agent

MCP serverNo MCP server found
PyPIpip install cohere
GitHubcohere-ai/cohere-python · 406 stars · last push Sep 29, 2026

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