Cohere

About Cohere

Cohere builds enterprise-grade large language models and AI infrastructure designed from the ground up for business use. Its product portfolio includes the Command R and Command R+ language models for reasoning and RAG workloads, Embed models for semantic search and classification, Rerank for improving search result relevance, and the North enterprise AI agent platform launched in 2025 for orchestrating multi-step agentic workflows across enterprise knowledge bases. Cohere's standout compliance differentiator is its enterprise data commitment: by default, Cohere does not use any customer data — including prompts, completions, documents, or embeddings — to train or fine-tune its foundational models. This applies to API customers, not just enterprise tiers. Customers have full control over data retention, and Cohere supports private cloud, public cloud, and on-premises deployments including air-gapped environments, making it accessible for defence, government, and financial services organisations with the strictest data sovereignty requirements. From a certifications standpoint, Cohere maintains SOC 2 Type II and undergoes annual audits, ISO 27001 (information security management), and ISO 42001 (AI management systems) — the latter being relatively rare among AI vendors and particularly relevant for organisations managing AI risk under the EU AI Act. Cohere is GDPR-compliant and provides Data Processing Agreements. Its Trust Centre is publicly accessible for security documentation requests. The Cohere API uses pay-as-you-go pricing with no minimum commitment: Command R+ is priced at $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Command R at $0.50/$1.50 per million tokens; and Embed at $0.12 per million tokens. A free Trial API key is available for development and testing. Enterprise pricing is customised based on volume, deployment model, SLAs, and support requirements. Cohere was co-founded in 2019 in Toronto by Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, and Nick Frosst — researchers with backgrounds at Google Brain and the University of Toronto. The company raised a $500 million Series D in August 2025 at a $6.8 billion valuation, bringing total funding to approximately $1.64 billion. With around 840 employees, Cohere operates as an independent AI company serving financial services, healthcare, legal, and government sectors among others.