Cohere is an NLP platform that helps teams add language AI features to products and internal tools, with models designed for text-heavy business workflows.
What you can build
- Chatbots and conversational assistants for support and internal knowledge
- Text generation for replies, summaries, and marketing copy
- Text editing experiences with autocomplete, inserts, and draft suggestions
- Automatic text classification and categorization
- Information extraction and text analysis to find key data
- Semantic search that improves results by understanding context
Languages
- Supports 100+ languages overall
- English is the primary language
- Other languages can be adapted via model fine-tuning
Access and pricing
- Available via Cohere API and as a cloud service through the official website
- Also offered as an open-source framework intended for app integration (e.g., React via npm or yarn)
- Free tier with limited features for testing
- Paid plans provide full API access; pricing depends on usage
Pros and cons
- Pros: large-scale training data, suitable for small and large businesses, API-friendly
- Cons: weaker support outside English, requires technical expertise to integrate
