Cohere
Command R+, Embed, Rerank — enterprise-focused AI
✓ What's Allowed
- ✓Building applications with your own API key
- ✓Commercial products using a production key
- ✓Research and prototyping on the free, rate-limited trial key
- ✓Enterprise RAG and search applications
- ✓Fine-tuning with your own data
✗ What's Prohibited
- ✗Unauthorized sublicensing or resale of the service
- ✗Serving production traffic on a trial key — Cohere directs production use to a production key
- ✗Generating harmful, illegal, or deceptive content
- ✗Reverse engineering or extracting model weights
- ✗Competing directly using Cohere infrastructure
Key ToS Sections
Going Live documentationView →
Registration gives a free, rate-limited trial key; serving Cohere in production means upgrading to a production key, which issues immediately once you acknowledge the terms. Sensitive use cases stay rate-limited pending safety review
SaaS AgreementView →
Cohere’s direct competitors are prohibited from accessing the Cohere API SaaS Services without prior written consent, and the Services may not be accessed for benchmarking or competitive purposes
Legacy editorial date (not policy verification): 2025-03-01 —Check your compliance →