# Cohere Chat API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/cohere/chat-api/  
**Provider:** cohere — https://apis.io/providers/cohere/  
**Base URL:** https://api.cohere.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.cohere.com/reference/chat

Cohere Chat API is one of 9 APIs that [cohere](https://apis.io/providers/cohere/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Chat, Conversational AI, Large Language Models, and Text Generation. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and an AsyncAPI specification.

The Cohere Chat API enables developers to integrate large language model text generation capabilities into their applications through a conversational interface. It supports multi-turn conversations, tool use with JSON schema definitions, retrieval-augmented generation, and streaming responses. The API is available via the v2 endpoint and works with Cohere's Command family of models.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://docs.cohere.com/reference/chat
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cohere/refs/heads/main/openapi/cohere-chat-api-openapi.yml
- **AsyncAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cohere/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/cohere-asyncapi.yml
- **GraphQL** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cohere/refs/heads/main/graphql/cohere-graphql.md
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cohere/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other cohere APIs (8)

- [Cohere Embed API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/embed-api/)
- [Cohere Rerank API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/rerank-api/)
- [Cohere Classify API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/classify-api/)
- [Cohere Embed Jobs API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/embed-jobs-api/)
- [Cohere Datasets API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/datasets-api/)
- [Cohere Models API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/models-api/)
- [Cohere Tokenize API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/tokenize-api/)
- [Cohere Detokenize API](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/detokenize-api/)

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Chat, Conversational AI, Large Language Models, Text Generation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/cohere/chat-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/cohere/.