Compare a consumer-scale general-purpose LLM stack against an enterprise-focused stack built for RAG, embeddings, and on-prem deployment.
Pick OpenAI when you want the broadest general-purpose model performance and the widest ecosystem of integrations under one managed API. Pick Cohere when enterprise compliance, VPC or self-hosted deployment, and best-in-class embeddings and rerank models for retrieval pipelines are non-negotiable.
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| Attribute | Cohere | OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | AI / ML | AI / ML |
| Pricing Model | freemium | freemium |
| Starting Price | Free | Free |
| Free Tier | Yes | Yes |
| Open Source | No | No |
| Platforms | — | web, api |
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