AI API price index · model maker · read 16 Oct 2026
Cohere API pricing
26 prices as Cohere publishes them — 10 text models, 2 embeddings, 1 speech to text, 2 rerank, 1 images and documents, 10 hardware time — read on its own pricing page on 16 Oct 2026. Its current text models cost $0.15 to $1.50 per million output tokens.
Free tier Trial API key: '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.' Production keys are 'charged on a pay-as-you-go basis'. Command A+ and North Mini Code are printed as 'API key $0 / Free' and 'Model download $0 / Free'.
What to know before you build on Cohere
- Trial API keys are free but rate-limited, and not for production or commercial use.
- Command A+ and North Mini Code are printed as "$0 / Free" for both API key and model download, with no per-token rate.
- Command A, Command A Vision, Command A Translate, Embed 4 and a per-search Rerank 3.5 price are not on the page.
- Rerank is billed per search — one query with up to 100 documents.
- Model Vault sells dedicated instances by the hour. No batch or caching discount is stated.
Against the other ten
Across the index, 85 current text models run from $0.10 to $50.00 per million output tokens — 500×. Cohere’s cheapest, Command R7B at $0.15, has 2 cheaper text models elsewhere; its dearest, Aya Expanse (8B and 32B), costs $1.50. A cheaper model is a different model, not the same one for less — compare capability before price.
Text models
| Model | Input | Cached input | Output | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command A+ | — | — | — | Printed as 'API key $0 / Free' and 'Model download $0 / Free'; open-source (Apache 2.0); no per-token rate shown · Not ranked: printed as free — no per-token price to rank. |
| Command R | $0.15 | — | $0.60 | — |
| Command R7B | $0.0375 | — | $0.15 | — |
| North Mini Code | — | — | — | Printed as 'API key $0 / Free' and 'Model download $0 / Free'; open-source (Apache 2.0); no per-token rate shown · Not ranked: printed as free — no per-token price to rank. |
| Aya Expanse (8B and 32B) | $0.50 | — | $1.50 | Research models via the API |
| Commandlegacy | $1.00 | — | $2.00 | Legacy model, existing customers only · Not ranked: legacy model, existing customers only. |
| Command-lightlegacy | $0.30 | — | $0.60 | Legacy model, existing customers only · Not ranked: legacy model, existing customers only. |
| Command R 03-2024legacy | $0.50 | — | $1.50 | Legacy model, existing customers only · Not ranked: legacy model, existing customers only. |
| Command R+ 04-2024legacy | $3.00 | — | $15.00 | Legacy model, existing customers only · Not ranked: legacy model, existing customers only. |
| Command R+ 08-2024legacy | $2.50 | — | $10.00 | Legacy model, existing customers only · Not ranked: legacy model, existing customers only. |
Embeddings
| Model | Input | Cached input | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embed 5 Pro | $0.12 | — | — |
| Embed 5 Fast | $0.08 | — | — |
Speech to text
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| TranscribeModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $3.75 per hour | 'From' price, per instance-hour via Model Vault — NOT per audio hour · Not ranked: dedicated instance priced per hour, not per unit of use. |
Rerank
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Rerank 4 Fast | $2.00 per 1K searches | Search = one query with up to 100 documents |
| Rerank 4 Pro | $2.50 per 1K searches | Search = one query with up to 100 documents |
Images and documents
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Parse 5 | $1.50 per 1K pages | Document parsing, per 1,000 pages |
Hardware time
| Model | Price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Embed 5 Fast — Model Vault SmallModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $3.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $2,000 |
| Embed 5 Fast — Model Vault MediumModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $5.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $3,250 |
| Embed 5 Pro — Model Vault SmallModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $3.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $2,000 |
| Embed 5 Pro — Model Vault MediumModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $5.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $3,250 |
| Rerank 4 Fast — Model Vault MediumModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $5.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $3,250 |
| Rerank 4 Pro — Model Vault MediumModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $5.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $3,250 |
| Rerank 4 Pro — Model Vault LargeModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $10.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $6,500 |
| Rerank 3.5 — Model Vault MediumModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $5.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $3,250 |
| Parse 5 — Model Vault MediumModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $4.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $2,500 |
| Parse 5 — Model Vault XLModel Vault (dedicated instance) | $7.00 per hour | Per instance; monthly rate $4,300 |
5 of these 26 prices are ranked in the index; the rest say why in their note. Text and embeddings per 1M tokens unless the row says otherwise.
Where these numbers come from
Read on cohere.com/pricing on 16 Oct 2026, checked against 1 more of Cohere’s own pages. Macrostack measures nothing and is paid by no provider on this index. Prices change; the date is the claim.
The other providers in the index
- The AI API price index — every provider, cheapest first, and the download
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- Groq API pricing — open-model host
- Together AI API pricing — open-model host
- Fireworks AI API pricing — open-model host
- Replicate API pricing — open-model host
- Deepgram API pricing — voice
- ElevenLabs API pricing — voice
Questions
- How much does the Cohere API cost?
- On 16 Oct 2026, Cohere's current text models cost $0.15 to $1.50 per million output tokens at the standard tier (Command R7B to Aya Expanse (8B and 32B)). The full list, with input and cached-input prices, is on this page.
- Does Cohere have a free tier?
- What Cohere's own pages say: Trial API key: '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.' Production keys are 'charged on a pay-as-you-go basis'. Command A+ and North Mini Code are printed as 'API key $0 / Free' and 'Model download $0 / Free'.