Cohere pricing

Cohere API Pricing

Cohere rows preserve official pricing-page evidence, including null values where a model is listed by Cohere but no confirmed token price is exposed in the public source.

MODELS COVERED
5
DATA SOURCE
Official Cohere
PRICING UNIT
Multiple billing units
LAST VERIFIED
Sep 29, 2026
API cost estimate

Estimate Cohere API Cost

Choose a current Cohere model from the same pricing rows, enter input tokens, output tokens, and request volume, then review the estimated monthly API cost.

Cohere cost planning

Estimate Cohere API cost before monthly usage scales.

Start with realistic input tokens, output tokens, model choice, request volume, and any cached or discounted input when listed rules that apply. Then compare the estimate against current model pricing and budget limits before launch.

Non-token billing

Non-token prices retain their native billing units.

These records are published separately from token pricing and are excluded from token calculators and the model token-price comparison.

Structured multimodal pricing

Modality-aware token prices retain their official billing dimensions.

These models publish separate text-input, audio-output, and token-hour storage components. They remain visible here and in the Dataset, but are excluded from ordinary text-token calculators.

Current model pricing

Model costs per 1M tokens.

Null or unverified values are displayed as Not listed, never as zero.

ModelInputOutputCached InputUnitStatus
Aya Expanse 32BModel ID: aya-expanse-32bProvider: CohereDisplayed pricing: StandardVerification: verified.
Evidence
Verified: Not availableChecked: Not availableOfficial source: Official source
Input · USD per 1M input tokens$0.500Output · USD per 1M output tokens$1.50Cached input · USD per 1M cached input tokensNot listedUSD per 1M tokenslatestactive
Command R+ 08-2024Model ID: command-r-plus-08-2024Provider: CohereDisplayed pricing: StandardVerification: verified.
Evidence
Verified: Not availableChecked: Not availableOfficial source: Official source
Input · USD per 1M input tokens$2.50Output · USD per 1M output tokens$10.00Cached input · USD per 1M cached input tokensNot listedUSD per 1M tokenslatestactive
Cohere API pricing guide

What is Cohere API pricing?

Cohere API pricing is the usage-based cost of running Cohere models through API requests. The practical estimate depends on the selected model, input tokens, output tokens, monthly request volume, retries, and any listed caching or discount rules.

How to estimate Cohere API cost

Estimate one representative request first: input tokens, expected output tokens, selected Cohere models, request volume, retry rate, and cached or discounted input when listed assumptions when they are listed. Then multiply by monthly traffic.

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Cohere model pricing table

Use the table on this page to compare available Cohere rows per 1M tokens. Not listed values stay visible as Not listed, so unknown prices are not accidentally treated as zero.

Compare Cohere models

Compare total workflow cost, not only the cheapest input token price. Output length, quality, retries, context size, and fallback routing can change the real monthly API bill.

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Cohere model use cases

Which Cohere models are usually used for.

Use cases are planning categories, not pricing promises. Estimate each workflow with its own token shape, expected answer length, quality requirement, and fallback behavior.

Enterprise search and RAG

Cohere is often evaluated for retrieval-heavy products, reranking, search, and knowledge assistant workflows.

Text generation and classification

Teams may compare Cohere model routes for classification, summarization, extraction, and support automation.

Provider diversification

Cohere pricing can be part of a multi-provider plan when teams want alternatives for search, RAG, or enterprise AI workloads.

Provider comparison

Cohere pricing vs OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini.

Compare Cohere with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and Mistral by input price, output price, cached-input behavior, context needs, latency, quality, and cost per successful task. Always verify current provider pricing before launch or procurement decisions.

Monthly spend control

How to control monthly Cohere API spend.

Estimate before launch

Model a normal, high, and worst-case month with expected requests, input tokens, output tokens, retries, and model routes before exposing a feature to real traffic.

Set budget limits

Decide which app, workspace, customer tier, or internal team can spend against the provider budget. Review burn rate weekly during launches and pricing changes.

Reduce avoidable tokens

Shorten repeated instructions, cap output length, avoid sending full history when a summary works, and route routine tasks to lower-cost models when quality testing supports it.

Official sources

Source URLs used for this provider.

Cost examples

1M input tokens
$0.500
Model
Aya Expanse 32B
1M output tokens
$1.50
Model
Aya Expanse 32B
10M input + 2M output
$8.00
Model
Aya Expanse 32B

Calculate a workload with Cohere pricing context.

The existing calculator route is linked directly without invented provider or model query parameters.

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Cohere API pricing FAQ

Cohere API pricing FAQ

How much does the Cohere API cost?

Cohere API cost depends on the selected model, input tokens, output tokens, request volume, retries, and any cached or discounted input when listed or discount rules that apply. Use the pricing table and calculator with your own workload assumptions instead of relying on a single average price.

How do I estimate monthly Cohere API cost?

Estimate one request with input tokens, expected output tokens, model choice, and current per-1M-token pricing. Then multiply by requests per user, active users, days per month, retry rate, and fallback calls.

Which Cohere models are usually used for?

Cohere models are usually evaluated for workflows such as enterprise search and rag, text generation and classification, provider diversification. The best route depends on quality, latency, context size, output length, and monthly budget.

Is Cohere cheaper than OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini?

Cohere can be cheaper or more expensive depending on the exact model, prompt size, output length, cache eligibility, retry rate, and quality target. Compare total workflow cost across providers before switching production traffic.

Why are some Cohere prices shown as Not listed?

Not listed means the current local pricing source does not expose a confirmed numeric value for that field. It is intentionally not treated as zero. Check the official Cohere pricing page and billing dashboard before launch.

How can I control monthly Cohere API spend?

Control spend by setting monthly budget limits, measuring input and output tokens separately, capping output length, reducing repeated context, reviewing retry cost, and comparing model routes before high-volume traffic grows.