Free trial keys for Cohere models, limited to 1,000 API calls a month and 20 chat requests a minute; not permitted for production or commercial use.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- requests / month
- 1K
- Per trial key, across all endpoints.
- requests / minute · LLM API
- 20
- Chat API, per model.
- Embed inputs / minute · Embeddings
- 2K
- Texts sent to the Embed API per minute.
Before you rely on it
Read with the default assumptions: a project that may grow and may make money.
- Breaking: The free plan is for non-commercial use
- Notice: Free-tier inputs may be used for training (by default)
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- Not documented
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documented
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- Not documentedA trial key is created automatically with every new account.
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- Not allowed on the free planCohere's privacy policy lets it use trial users' inputs and outputs for research and to improve its products.
- Training on your inputs
- Used to improve the provider's models
- Mainland China
- Not verifiedGreatFire has tested only Cohere's website, not the API host api.cohere.com. Cohere's SaaS Agreement lists China, including Hong Kong and Macau, as a Restricted Location from which its services may not be used.
- Sign-up regions
- BY, CN, HK, IR, KP, MO, RU, SY
- Quotas apply per
- API key
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
- Correction
Worse: Region restrictions corrected: — → BY, CN, HK, IR, KP, MO, RU, SY
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Trial