Our take
Cohere is a focused proprietary-model provider with a clear no-training-on-prompts policy and three tiers of price-performance. Its compliance disclosures are sparse, making it best for teams who prioritise prompt privacy over geographic or certification guarantees.
Use this when prompt privacy is paramount and you need access to Cohere's own models specifically. Pick Command R7B for mid-tier throughput at moderate cost, or Command A when you need its capabilities and can absorb the steep price jump. Skip it if you need verified SOC 2, a confirmed EU endpoint, or a broad model catalogue.
- Explicit no-training-on-prompts policy, verified rather than claimed.
- Strongest throughput on the cheapest tracked model — Command R7B at 56 tokens/sec, 14× the throughput of Command R.
- Clear price-performance tiering across its own lineup: three models at widely separated price points.
- Very limited model catalogue — only 3 tracked proprietary offers versus providers with 60+ downloadable options.
- Compliance and geographic posture largely undocumented: SOC 2, EU endpoint, headquarters country and zero-retention option all unverified in our data.
- Severe throughput bottleneck on the mid-tier model — Command R at 4 tokens/sec, 14× slower than R7B despite being only 4× the input price.
Point your tools here
We have not recorded what a router needs for Cohere yet — no base URL and no docs link on file. That is our gap, not a sign Cohere has no API; its own documentation is the place to look until we close it.
Privacy & data handling
These answers cover requests sent to Cohere through OpenRouter, as OpenRouter records them, last read 4 hours ago. For Cohere's own API we hold no answer: check its terms. SOC 2 and the data processing agreement below are hand-checked, not part of that sync.
Prompt retention: 30 days.