Cohere
Enterprise AI company whose North platform gives staff a private AI assistant, agents and search over company data.
Quote-based pricing API
Bottom line
Cohere is an enterprise AI company, and its North platform is a private AI workspace with chat, agents, automations and search over company data. It suits large HR and talent teams that need AI deployed inside their own infrastructure. North is quoted; there is no self-serve plan for individuals.
Stands out for: North can run entirely in your own VPC or on-premises, with guardrails, admin controls and audit-ready visibility, which few general assistants offer.
Watch out for: This is not a consumer chat app: there is no free or monthly plan for an individual recruiter, and buying North means a sales process. It is built for enterprises and regulated industries, not small agencies.
Overview
Cohere was founded in Toronto in 2019 and builds large language models and AI products for enterprises. Its Command models handle text generation, while its Embed and Rerank models power search and retrieval.
North, launched in 2025, is Cohere's AI platform for workplace productivity. Staff get a chat workspace that answers questions grounded in company knowledge, generates summaries, tables and charts, and builds decks and documents. Teams can create agents, reusable skills and natural-language automations, then share them across the organisation.
For HR and talent teams, that means an assistant that can answer from internal policies, job architecture and hiring playbooks while the data stays inside company infrastructure. North runs in your own VPC, on-premises or on Cohere's isolated Model Vault, with guardrails and admin controls.
Cohere does not publish North pricing; it is quoted after a demo. Developers can use Cohere's models through a pay-as-you-go API with free trial keys for testing.
Who it's for
Best for
- Enterprise HR and talent teams with strict data rules
- Regulated employers that need on-premises or private-cloud AI
- Companies that want shared agents grounded in internal policies and docs
Not ideal for
- Individual recruiters or small agencies wanting a monthly plan
- Anyone looking for a free assistant to try today
Key features
North workspace. A chat interface where staff ask questions, draft documents and build tables and charts.
Agents and automations. Teams build agents and natural-language automations for routine work and share them across the company.
Grounded search. Answers draw on your company's own documents with verifiable sources.
Private deployment. Runs in your own VPC, on-premises or on Cohere's isolated Model Vault.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Answers questions grounded in company documents | North |
| Builds agents and natural-language automations | North |
| Generates summaries, tables, charts and decks from chat | North |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
The vendor does not publish prices for North or Compass; plans are quoted. Cohere's models are available on a pay-as-you-go API, with free rate-limited trial keys for non-commercial testing, and dedicated Model Vault instances start at $3/hr or $2,000/mo per instance. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 15 Oct 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Is Cohere expensive?
Cohere does not publish a price. It is one of 2 quote-based tools among the 12 AI assistants tools in our directory. 11 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $17 a month.
- 2 quote-based
- 11 free tier
- 8 public price
Worked out automatically from every AI assistants listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Deploys in your own VPC or on-premises
- Answers grounded in company documents with sources
- Shared agents, skills and automations across teams
Cons
- No published pricing for North
- No individual or small-team self-serve plan
- Built for large enterprises, not agencies
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