Mistral AI vs Llama vs Cohere vs Google Gemini
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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Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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Cohere
Enterprise models and agents built for private deployment
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Google Gemini
Google's AI assistant, now with Gemini 4 Argon on paid plans
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.4 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 8.7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Usage_based | Freemium |
| 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 weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence | 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 | Free with a Google account: Flash-Lite model, image generation and editing, Deep Research, Gemini Live, Canvas, 15 GB storage |
| 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) | SGD 6.98/month (Google AI Plus; US$4.99); Pro SGD 28.99, Ultra from SGD 139.99 |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ API users | 10m+ downloads | Over 17,000 active enterprise customers as of mid-2026, with $240M in annual recurring revenue. | Hundreds of millions via Google products |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | 2019 | 2023 |
| Maker | Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothee Lacroix | Meta Platforms | 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... |
Llama 2 and 3 made Meta's family the default starting point for self-hosted and fine-tuned models, and the weights from Llama 2 through Llama 4 remain free to download from Hugging Face and Kaggle. Llama 4 Scout and Mave... |
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... |
Gemini is the obvious assistant for people who live in Google's services: it reaches into Gmail, Drive and Docs, runs Deep Research and voice, and its paid plans bundle storage. Singapore pricing is reasonable at the low... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.