Mixtral vs Cohere
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Mixtral
Mistral's open-weight mixture-of-experts model, Apache 2.0 licensed
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Cohere
Enterprise and sovereign AI — RAG-grade models, on-prem deployment
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Paid |
| Free tier | Free to download and self-host | 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 | 500k+ API users | Over 17,000 active enterprise customers as of mid-2026, with $240M in annual recurring revenue. |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
| Maker | Mistral AI | Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang |
| Verdict | Mixtral (8x7B and 8x22B) was Mistral AI's proof that sparse mixture-of-experts could match dense models at a fraction of the active-parameter cost, and the Apache 2.0 license made it genuinely usable in production withou... |
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... |
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