Cohere vs Reka 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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Reka AI
Multimodal frontier models from Reka
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 7.2 / 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. | — |
| Paid from | Pay-as-you-go — Command A+ pricing on request; prior Command R from $0.15/1M in | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | Over 17,000 active enterprise customers as of mid-2026, with $240M in annual recurring revenue. | — |
| Founded | 2019 | 2022 |
| Maker | Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang | — |
| 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... |
Reka AI is a research-led lab building natively multimodal models (Core, Flash, Edge, Spark) that handle text, image, audio and video, with Core approaching GPT-4V-class performance on several benchmarks. It offers an AP... |
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