How Cohere is used
Cohere is a dependency in 2 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 237 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is OpenAI Python Library (245 projects). Projects that use it most often also use OpenAI Python Library (90.7%), python-dotenv (86.1%), Pydantic (85.2%).
Cohere popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 72, use in agent projects 63, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 50 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Cohere
| OpenAI Python Library | 90.7% of Cohere projects · 23.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 86.1% of Cohere projects · 9.4× more than average |
| Pydantic | 85.2% of Cohere projects · 9.9× more than average |
| Hugging Face Hub | 83.1% of Cohere projects · 90.5× more than average |
| NumPy | 82.3% of Cohere projects · 14.1× more than average |
| Requests | 81.9% of Cohere projects · 12.0× more than average |
| Click | 81.0% of Cohere projects · 32.4× more than average |
| AnyIO | 79.3% of Cohere projects · 53.5× more than average |
From all 237 projects in our scan that use Cohere, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install cohere |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (231), Next.js (6) |
| Example projects | Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, zstar1003/ragflow-plus, onlyphantom/llm-python, prakharsr/audiobook-creator, YuhangChen1/Paper2All |
Alternatives to Cohere
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Cohere are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI Python Library pypi Official Python SDK to call OpenAI APIs including GPT models and embeddings. |
86 | 245 (15.1%) | 82.1M | 31.9K | Apache-2.0 |
| Anthropic Python SDK pypi Official Python library for calling Claude via the Anthropic API. |
73 | 113 (7.0%) | 42.7M | 3,980 | MIT |
| Google GenAI Python SDK pypi Official Python SDK for Google's generative AI models including Gemini. |
72 | 102 (6.3%) | 36.6M | 4,034 | Apache-2.0 |
| Mistral AI SDK pypi Official Python SDK for the Mistral AI API to call Mistral language models. |
47 | 4 (0.2%) | 3.3M | 774 | Apache-2.0 |
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