> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Cohere

> Free access to Cohere's Command and Aya models

<Note>
  Cohere provides free API access to their suite of language models with a shared monthly quota.
</Note>

## Overview

Cohere offers free access to their Command and Aya model families, including multilingual and reasoning-optimized models.

## Rate Limits

<Warning>
  All models share a common monthly quota on the free tier.
</Warning>

| Limit Type          | Free Tier |
| ------------------- | --------- |
| Requests per minute | 20        |
| Requests per month  | 1,000     |

[View detailed rate limits](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits)

## Available Models

### Command Models

* **command-a-03-2025** - Latest Command model
* **command-a-reasoning-08-2025** - Optimized for reasoning tasks
* **command-a-translate-08-2025** - Specialized for translation
* **command-a-vision-07-2025** - Multimodal vision model
* **command-r-08-2024** - Command R series
* **command-r-plus-08-2024** - Enhanced Command R
* **command-r7b-12-2024** - Efficient 7B model
* **command-r7b-arabic-02-2025** - Arabic-optimized model

### Aya Models

<Info>
  Aya models are designed for multilingual understanding and generation.
</Info>

* **c4ai-aya-expanse-32b** - Large multilingual model
* **c4ai-aya-vision-32b** - Multimodal multilingual model
* **tiny-aya-earth** - Compact multilingual model
* **tiny-aya-fire** - Specialized tiny model
* **tiny-aya-global** - Global language support
* **tiny-aya-water** - Efficient tiny variant

## API Usage

<CodeGroup>
  ```python Python theme={null}
  import cohere

  client = cohere.Client(api_key="YOUR_COHERE_API_KEY")

  response = client.chat(
      model="command-a-03-2025",
      message="Hello, how are you?"
  )

  print(response.text)
  ```

  ```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
  import { CohereClient } from 'cohere-ai';

  const cohere = new CohereClient({
      token: process.env.COHERE_API_KEY
  });

  const response = await cohere.chat({
      model: 'command-a-03-2025',
      message: 'Hello, how are you?'
  });

  console.log(response.text);
  ```

  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl https://api.cohere.ai/v1/chat \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_COHERE_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
      "model": "command-a-03-2025",
      "message": "Hello, how are you?"
    }'
  ```
</CodeGroup>

## Getting Started

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create Account">
    Sign up at [cohere.com](https://cohere.com)
  </Step>

  <Step title="Generate API Key">
    Create an API key from your dashboard
  </Step>

  <Step title="Start Building">
    Use the Cohere API or SDK to access models
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Key Features

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Multilingual" icon="globe">
    Support for 100+ languages with Aya models
  </Card>

  <Card title="Reasoning" icon="brain">
    Specialized models for complex reasoning
  </Card>

  <Card title="Vision" icon="eye">
    Multimodal models for image understanding
  </Card>

  <Card title="Translation" icon="language">
    Dedicated translation models
  </Card>

  <Card title="RAG Optimized" icon="magnifying-glass">
    Built-in support for retrieval augmented generation
  </Card>

  <Card title="Enterprise Ready" icon="building">
    Production-grade infrastructure
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Use Cases

<Info>
  * **Multilingual Applications**: Support users in their native language
  * **Complex Reasoning**: Solve mathematical and logical problems
  * **Document Analysis**: Process and understand documents
  * **Translation**: High-quality translation across languages
  * **Vision Tasks**: Analyze and describe images
  * **RAG Applications**: Build search and question-answering systems
</Info>

## Model Selection Guide

* **General Purpose**: command-a-03-2025
* **Reasoning Tasks**: command-a-reasoning-08-2025
* **Translation**: command-a-translate-08-2025
* **Vision Tasks**: command-a-vision-07-2025 or c4ai-aya-vision-32b
* **Multilingual**: Any Aya model
* **Resource Constrained**: tiny-aya models or command-r7b

## Additional Resources

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Cohere Dashboard" icon="browser" href="https://dashboard.cohere.com">
    Manage your account
  </Card>

  <Card title="Documentation" icon="book" href="https://docs.cohere.com">
    API documentation
  </Card>

  <Card title="Model Cards" icon="id-card" href="https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models">
    Detailed model information
  </Card>

  <Card title="Rate Limits" icon="gauge" href="https://docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits">
    Rate limit details
  </Card>
</CardGroup>