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Cohere

Enterprise AI: Private, Secure, Customizable

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Cohere is an enterprise AI company offering a platform and model family for building and deploying AI within business environments. It addresses the need to automate workflows, search across fragmented enterprise data, and generate content while maintaining control over data and deployment. The product line spans an agentic workplace platform, an enterprise search system, and a range of generative, embedding, reranking, speech transcription, and document parsing models.

Key products include North, an agentic platform for building custom agents and generating documents; Compass, an enterprise search system with data connectors, document parsing, and a managed index; and Model Vault, a dedicated managed environment for running Cohere models. The model family includes Command (generative), Transcribe (speech-to-text), Embed (semantic text representation), Rerank (relevance refinement), and Parse (document parsing). Deployment options include virtual private cloud, on-premises, or Cohere-managed Model Vault, with third-party cloud support across OCI, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. Security features include multi-layered protection, access controls, customizable data retention, and the ability to opt out of model training.

Cohere targets enterprises across industries including financial services, public sector, technology, and energy. North and Compass are priced through custom enterprise quotes. Model Vault is priced per instance based on model and performance tier, with hourly or monthly billing and Fixed or Flex plan options. A free Trial API key is available upon account creation with rate limits, while Production API keys are billed on a pay-as-you-go basis. Model customization and private deployment are available for enterprise customers with custom pricing.

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