Cohere Free Trial API
Free rate-limited Cohere Trial API key for non-commercial prototyping
What you get from Cohere Free Trial API for free
Overview
Cohere provides a free Trial API key automatically upon creating an account, allowing developers to experiment, evaluate, and prototype with Cohere's language and embedding models without initial setup costs.
What is Included
- Automatic Provisioning: Every new user account starts as a personal account and receives a Trial API key immediately in the dashboard under the "API Keys" section.
- Free API Calls: All requests made using the Trial API key are completely free of charge.
- Model Access: Experiment with Cohere's generative, retrieval, and reranking capabilities for evaluation and prototyping.
Limitations & Usage Terms
- Non-Commercial Use: Trial API keys are restricted to non-production and non-commercial development only.
- Rate Limits: Calls are subject to stricter rate limits compared to production access.
- Production Transition: To deploy models at scale or use them commercially, accounts must complete the organization setup and request a Production API key with pay-as-you-go billing.
Models served free
Limits as the provider publishes them; a dash means none is published.
| Model | Context | RPM | RPD | TPM | Tools | Vision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| command-a-plus-05-2026Trial chat limit 20 req/min; trial keys capped at 1,000 API calls a month | 128k | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| command-a-03-2025Trial chat limit | 256k | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| command-a-vision-07-2025Trial chat limit; vision model | 128k | 20 | — | — | — | yes |
| embed-v5.0-proTrial embed limit is 2,000 inputs/min (not a request count) | 128k | — | — | — | — | — |
| rerank-v4.0-proTrial rerank limit | 32k | 10 | — | — | — | — |
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Understand it
A few minutes of play-along, no sign-up.
- How does it know "king" is close to "queen"? · Embeddings · 5 min
- Teach it my docs, or let it read them? · RAG vs fine-tuning · 5 min
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30,000,000 tokens/month - 30M tokens/month on the free tier (input + output, incl. reasoning)
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500,000 tokens/month - 0.5M tokens per month, resets monthly