Cohere vs Google Gemini
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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Google Gemini
Google's flagship multimodal AI — the Gemini 3 family across Search, W...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 8.7 / 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 access to Gemini (3.5 Flash, limited 3.1 Pro) on web and mobile |
| Paid from | Pay-as-you-go — Command A+ pricing on request; prior Command R from $0.15/1M in | Free tier; Google AI Plus ~$7.99/mo, AI Pro $19.99/mo, AI Ultra from ~$99.99/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | Over 17,000 active enterprise customers as of mid-2026, with $240M in annual recurring revenue. | Hundreds of millions via Google products |
| Founded | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang | Google / Alphabet |
| 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... |
Gemini is one of the three frontier assistants alongside ChatGPT and Claude, and the tightest-integrated of the three if your life runs on Workspace, Android and Search. The Gemini 3 family brings strong multimodal reaso... |
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