Cohere vs Liquid AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cohere
Enterprise and sovereign AI — RAG-grade models, on-prem deployment
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Liquid AI
Non-Transformer AI models built for efficient on-device inference
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Free tier | Trial API key: 1,000 free API calls per month across all endpoints (non-commercial use only); Chat endpoints rate-limited to 20 req/min; text Embed rate-limited to 2,000 inputs/min. | Free weights via Hugging Face; Playground access; LEAP SDK; Liquid Apollo app |
| Paid from | Pay-as-you-go — Command A+ pricing on request; prior Command R from $0.15/1M in | Custom enterprise pricing (contact sales); some models served via OpenRouter |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Over 17,000 active enterprise customers as of mid-2026, with $240M in annual recurring revenue. | Early enterprise and developer adoption; customer base not publicly disclosed |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang | Liquid AI (independent) |
| Verdict | Cohere's pitch is deployment control, not frontier benchmarks. Embed and Rerank remain among the strongest retrieval models for RAG and enterprise search, and the Command line was refreshed in May 2026 with Command A+, a... |
Liquid AI's bet is architectural: skip Transformers, build on liquid neural networks instead, and win on efficiency rather than raw scale. The numbers back it up so far — LFM2 claims 200% higher CPU throughput than Qwen3... |
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