# cohere

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cohere/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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

## Kin Score — 33.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 76.7 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 39.2 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **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...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cohere Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 11 acting

## Security (2)

- **Cohere Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Cohere Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cohere Plans Pricing**

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cohere/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.