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Cohere

TypeScriptPythonRESTPaidRAG

Enterprise-focused AI platform specializing in text understanding, embeddings, and RAG. Cohere's Embed and Rerank models are industry-leading for production search and retrieval.

License

Proprietary

Language

TypeScript / Python

63
Trust
Fair

Why Cohere?

Building enterprise search or RAG pipelines

You need best-in-class embedding models

Enterprise compliance and data privacy requirements

Signal Breakdown

What drives the Trust Score

npm downloads
200k / wk
Commits (90d)
80 commits
GitHub stars
3k ★
Stack Overflow
2k q's
Community
Active
Weighted Trust Score63 / 100

Download Trend

Last 12 months

Tradeoffs & Caveats

Know before you commit

General-purpose chat applications

You already use OpenAI embeddings successfully

Budget is tight — Cohere is enterprise-priced

Pricing

Free tier & paid plans

Free tier

Free trial with rate limits

Paid

Command R+: $3/1M input tokens

Enterprise plans with private deployment available

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Learning Resources

Docs, videos, tutorials, and courses

Get Started

Repository and installation options

View on GitHub

github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-typescript

npmnpm install cohere-ai
pippip install cohere

Quick Start

Copy and adapt to get going fast

import { CohereClient } from 'cohere-ai';

const cohere = new CohereClient({ token: process.env.COHERE_API_KEY });

const response = await cohere.chat({
  model: 'command-r-plus',
  message: 'Hello!',
});
console.log(response.text);

Code Examples

Common usage patterns

Generate embeddings

Embed text for semantic search

const response = await cohere.embed({
  texts: ['Hello world', 'Goodbye world'],
  model: 'embed-english-v3.0',
  inputType: 'search_document',
});
console.log(response.embeddings);

Rerank results

Rerank search results by relevance

const reranked = await cohere.rerank({
  model: 'rerank-english-v3.0',
  query: 'What is the capital of France?',
  documents: ['Paris is the capital', 'London is great', 'France is in Europe'],
  topN: 2,
});

Community Notes

Real experiences from developers who've used this tool