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Cohere provides free API access to their suite of language models with a shared monthly quota.

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Overview

Cohere offers free access to their Command and Aya model families, including multilingual and reasoning-optimized models.

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Rate Limits

All models share a common monthly quota on the free tier.
Limit TypeFree Tier
Requests per minute20
Requests per month1,000
View detailed rate limits

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Available Models

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Command Models

  • command-a-03-2025 - Latest Command model
  • command-a-reasoning-08-2025 - Optimized for reasoning tasks
  • command-a-translate-08-2025 - Specialized for translation
  • command-a-vision-07-2025 - Multimodal vision model
  • command-r-08-2024 - Command R series
  • command-r-plus-08-2024 - Enhanced Command R
  • command-r7b-12-2024 - Efficient 7B model
  • command-r7b-arabic-02-2025 - Arabic-optimized model

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Aya Models

Aya models are designed for multilingual understanding and generation.
  • c4ai-aya-expanse-32b - Large multilingual model
  • c4ai-aya-vision-32b - Multimodal multilingual model
  • tiny-aya-earth - Compact multilingual model
  • tiny-aya-fire - Specialized tiny model
  • tiny-aya-global - Global language support
  • tiny-aya-water - Efficient tiny variant

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API Usage

import cohere

client = cohere.Client(api_key="YOUR_COHERE_API_KEY")

response = client.chat(
    model="command-a-03-2025",
    message="Hello, how are you?"
)

print(response.text)

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Getting Started

1

Create Account

Sign up at cohere.com
2

Generate API Key

Create an API key from your dashboard
3

Start Building

Use the Cohere API or SDK to access models

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Key Features

Multilingual

Support for 100+ languages with Aya models

Reasoning

Specialized models for complex reasoning

Vision

Multimodal models for image understanding

Translation

Dedicated translation models

RAG Optimized

Built-in support for retrieval augmented generation

Enterprise Ready

Production-grade infrastructure

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Use Cases

  • Multilingual Applications: Support users in their native language
  • Complex Reasoning: Solve mathematical and logical problems
  • Document Analysis: Process and understand documents
  • Translation: High-quality translation across languages
  • Vision Tasks: Analyze and describe images
  • RAG Applications: Build search and question-answering systems

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Model Selection Guide

  • General Purpose: command-a-03-2025
  • Reasoning Tasks: command-a-reasoning-08-2025
  • Translation: command-a-translate-08-2025
  • Vision Tasks: command-a-vision-07-2025 or c4ai-aya-vision-32b
  • Multilingual: Any Aya model
  • Resource Constrained: tiny-aya models or command-r7b

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Additional Resources

Cohere Dashboard

Manage your account

Documentation

API documentation

Model Cards

Detailed model information

Rate Limits

Rate limit details

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