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Cohere vs Text Embeddings Inference: catalog facts
Cohere	Text Embeddings Inference
Paid Usage is billed per the pricing page; private deployments are arranged with sales.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Web	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
Embedding and rerank models suited to retrieval and RAG Options for private and on-premises deployment	Supports many popular embedding and reranker model families Small Docker images with fast startup
Primarily aimed at enterprise customers Hosted API requires an account and network access	Serves embedding and classification models only, not text generation Set up as a server, so it suits developers rather than casual users
Hosted service	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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