Cohere offers a free Trial API key with 1,000 API calls per month

Cohere offers a free Trial API key for evaluation, which can be generated on the API keys page.Trial keys are limited to 1,000 API calls per month, and Chat API models support up to 20 requests per minute per model.If you need an environment with much higher usage limits, you can create a paid production key on the same page.

What you get

A free Trial API key provides 1,000 API calls per month. This includes Chat API models such as Command A, Command A Reasoning, Command R+, and North Mini Code, with 20 requests per minute per model; Embed, with 2,000 inputs per minute; Image Embed, with 5 inputs per minute; and EmbedJob, with 5 requests per minute

Price

The Trial API key is free, while the production key is paid.

Valid until

To be confirmed

Requirements

Create and use a Trial key on the API keys page.API calls are limited to 1,000 per month.Per-minute limits are 20 requests per minute for each Chat API model, 5 requests per minute for Audio Transcriptions and EmbedJob, 10 requests per minute for Rerank, 100 requests per minute for Tokenize, 500 requests per minute for Parse and other basic endpoints, 2,000 inputs per minute for Embed, and 5 inputs per minute for Image Embed.A paid production key is required for higher usage limits.However, the latest Chat model variants, such as Command A Reasoning, have the same 1,000-call monthly limit with production keys as with Trial keys, so contact [email protected] separately to use them in production.

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