cohere

Generates a text response to a user message and streams it down, token by token.

cohere publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Chat API, Embed API, Rerank API, and 6 more.

The cohere catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

cohere’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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45.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 54/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-21 · rubric v0.4

9 APIs 16 Features

API Rating

API Evangelist Rating How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-21 · rubric v0.4

Composite quality — 45.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 20.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 6.3 / 12

Discoverability 3.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs

Cohere Chat API

The Cohere Chat API enables developers to integrate large language model text generation capabilities into their applications through a conversational interface. It supports mul...

Cohere Embed API

The Cohere Embed API generates vector embeddings from text and images, enabling semantic search, clustering, and classification use cases. It supports multilingual content and c...

Cohere Rerank API

The Cohere Rerank API takes a query and a list of text documents and returns them ordered by relevance with assigned relevance scores. It is commonly used as a second-stage rank...

Cohere Classify API

The Cohere Classify API performs text classification by assigning labels to input text based on provided examples. It can be used for sentiment analysis, content moderation, top...

Cohere Embed Jobs API

The Cohere Embed Jobs API allows developers to create and manage batch embedding jobs for processing large volumes of text data asynchronously. Rather than embedding texts one a...

Cohere Datasets API

The Cohere Datasets API provides endpoints for uploading, managing, and retrieving datasets used with other Cohere services such as fine-tuning and embed jobs. Developers can cr...

Cohere Models API

The Cohere Models API allows developers to list and retrieve information about available Cohere models, including the Command, Embed, and Rerank model families. It provides deta...

Cohere Tokenize API

The Cohere Tokenize API splits input text into tokens using the tokenizer associated with a specified model. It returns both the token strings and their corresponding token IDs....

Cohere Detokenize API

The Cohere Detokenize API converts a sequence of token IDs back into their corresponding text string using the tokenizer for a specified model. It is the inverse operation of th...

Collections

Cohere Chat API

OPEN

Cohere Classify API

OPEN

Cohere Datasets API

OPEN

Cohere Detokenize API

OPEN

Cohere Embed API

OPEN

Cohere Embed Jobs API

OPEN

Cohere Models API

OPEN

Cohere Rerank API

OPEN

Cohere Tokenize API

OPEN

GraphQL

Cohere GraphQL Schema

This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Cohere AI API, covering the full surface of Cohere's language model, embedding, reranking, classification, tokenizati...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans

Cohere Plans Pricing

6 plans

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Command R at $0.50/$1.50

Command R+ 08-2024 at $2.50/$10

Command R+ 04-2024 at $3/$15

Aya Expanse multilingual at $0.50/$1.50

Embed v3 with English/multilingual

Rerank for relevance scoring

Production keys: 10K req/min Chat, 2K Embed, 10K Rerank

Trial keys: 20/min Chat, 100/min Embed

Connectors for RAG over data sources

Tool use and function calling

Compass for unstructured data search

Available on AWS Bedrock, Azure, Oracle Cloud

Fine-tuning for Command and Aya

OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions endpoint

Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Cohere Tokenize API
  version: '1.0'
request:
  auth:
    type: bearer
    token: '{{bearerToken}}'
items:
- info:
    name: Tokenize
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Tokenize text
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.cohere.com/v1/tokenize
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{}'
    docs: Splits input text into smaller units called tokens using byte-pair encoding (BPE) for the specified model. Returns
      both the token strings and their corresponding integer token IDs. The text must be between 1 and 65536 characters.
bundled: true