Cohere Free API: The Best Free Embedding and Rerank API for RAG in 2026
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What Is Cohere? Cohere is a Toronto-based AI company founded in 2019 by Aidan Gomez (one of the original authors of the “Attention Is All You Need” Transformer paper) and a team of ex-Google Brain researchers. Unlike OpenAI or Anthropic, Cohere built its platform from day one around a specific use case: enterprise retrieval and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation