Cohere trial keys

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Cohere trial keys Compute

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docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits · inference API · compute/cohere-trial-keys · JSON · compare

Free tier	A trial key is free and covers every model and endpoint, and is capped at '1,000 API calls a month' across the account, with Chat at 20 requests a minute per model. Embed runs at 2,000 inputs a minute on a trial key, the same as production, and Rerank at 10 a minute. unit requests; metered on wall-clock; recurring-monthly-request-allowance
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	request-rate 1,000 calls a month binds at any real volume: at 20 rpm the whole month's allowance is spent in 50 minutes of traffic, so the limit rewards one call carrying many items over many calls carrying one. source 1,000 calls a month binds at any real volume: at 20 rpm the whole month's allowance is spent in 50 minutes of traffic, so the limit rewards one call carrying many items over many calls carrying one.
Binding	request-rate 1,000 calls a month binds at any real volume: at 20 rpm the whole month's allowance is spent in 50 minutes of traffic, so the limit rewards one call carrying many items over many calls carrying one.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	the asymmetry is the useful part: Embed on a trial key is 2,000 inputs a minute against a 1,000-calls-a-month cap, so embedding a corpus in batches of 96 inputs is 1,000 calls for 96,000 chunks, which is the only shape where 1,000 calls is not the binding number.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Arithmetic, labelled estimate: 1,000 calls a month at 96 inputs an Embed call is about 96,000 embedded chunks a month, but 1,000 Chat calls a month is about 33 a day. The same account cannot do both at volume because the call counter is shared.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 1000.0 calls / month

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits	'Trial keys (and prod keys on newer Chat model variants) are limited to 1,000 API calls a month', quoted
2026-10-22	docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits	trial rate limits: Chat 20 req/min per model, Embed 2,000 inputs/min, Rerank 10 req/min, quoted
2026-10-22	docs.cohere.com/v2/docs/how-does-cohere-pricing-work	'trial API key usage is free' and covers all models and APIs, quoted

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated