AI21 Labs vs Cohere vs Mistral AI vs Reka AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
AI21 Labs
Jamba models, an agent-cost gateway and post-training from Tel Aviv
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Cohere
Enterprise models and agents built for private deployment
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Mistral AI
Paris model lab with open weights, cheap APIs and the Vibe agent
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Reka AI
Multimodal models and video infrastructure for physical AI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Usage_based | Usage_based | Freemium | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Pricing page lists a $10 credit for 7 days with no card, but sign-up currently redirects to the homepage; the Gateway is free during beta; Jamba2 weights are free under Apache 2.0 | Free trial API key, rate-limited and not for production or commercial use; Command A+ and North Mini Code weights free under Apache 2.0 | Vibe Free: limited messages, web searches and coding sessions, basic image generation, 100+ connectors; Apache 2.0 weights free to self-host | Reka Vision includes 3 hours of indexed video free; Reka Flash 3 weights are Apache 2.0 and Edge weights are free for organisations under $1M revenue |
| Paid from | Jamba Mini from $0.20/1M input tokens (listed); Gateway free in beta | Pay per use from $0.0375 per million input tokens (Command R7B) | $14.99/month (Vibe Pro, excluding tax); API from $0.10 per million tokens | $0.10 per 1M tokens (Reka Edge 2603 or Flash 3 input via the API) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Over 17,000 active enterprise customers as of mid-2026, with $240M in annual recurring revenue. | 500k+ API users | — |
| Founded | 2017 | 2019 | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | — | Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang | Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothee Lacroix | — |
| Verdict | AI21 Labs is in transition. Once a general model provider with Jamba's long context and the Maestro agent system, it shed most of its staff in May 2026 after acquisition talks failed and now leads with two narrower servi... |
Cohere suits enterprises that need to keep AI inside their own infrastructure. Embed 5 and Rerank 4 are practical building blocks for search and retrieval-augmented generation, Command A+ is now open-weight under Apache... |
Mistral is a good choice when you want models you can host yourself or buy cheaply by the token: Small 4, Large 3 and the Ministral 3 models are Apache 2.0, and API rates sit well below most US frontier labs. The Vibe ag... |
Reka's most useful product today is Reka Vision: upload a video library, then search it in plain language, ask questions across footage, tag it and cut highlight clips, with three free hours before per-minute billing. Re... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.