Mistral AI vs Cohere
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Mistral AI
Paris model lab with open weights, cheap APIs and the Vibe agent
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Cohere
Enterprise models and agents built for private deployment
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.4 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Usage_based |
| Free tier | Vibe Free: limited messages, web searches and coding sessions, basic image generation, 100+ connectors; Apache 2.0 weights free to self-host | 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 |
| Paid from | $14.99/month (Vibe Pro, excluding tax); API from $0.10 per million tokens | Pay per use from $0.0375 per million input tokens (Command R7B) |
| 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 | Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothee Lacroix | Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst, Ivan Zhang |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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