Cohere free tier

Free trial (evaluation) API keys for testing, limited to 1,000 API calls per month.

Kind: Free tier with rate limits · Provider type: Model lab

Card needed: not stated on the page

Limits: Trial keys: 1,000 API calls/month in total; chat models 20 requests/min, Embed 2,000 inputs/min, Rerank 10 requests/min, audio transcription 5 requests/min.

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Free models and offers (4)

Model	Requests	Tokens	Other limits / notes
Chat models (Command A+, A Reasoning, A Translate, A, R+, R, R7B, North Mini Code) command-models	20/min	n/p	1,000 calls/month (all endpoints)
Embed embed	n/p	n/p	2,000 inputs/min; 1,000 calls/month
Rerank rerank	10/min	n/p	1,000 calls/month
Audio transcription transcribe	5/min	n/p	1,000 calls/month

n/p = not published on the provider's page. Used for training: not stated.

Notes

Trial keys are meant for evaluation, not production.

Sources

Cohere rate limits checked 2026-10-25

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