# Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings vs Cohere Embed and Rerank (slim)

> Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Cohere Embed and Rerank's 72.5 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere Embed and Rerank leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both…

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Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings scores 75 (BB) on agent readiness against Cohere Embed and Rerank's 72.5 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Cohere Embed and Rerank leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do embed text.

- Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings: BB 75, rank #59 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-nova-embeddings.min.md
- Cohere Embed and Rerank: BB 72.5, rank #100 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-embed.min.md
- Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, good for Suited to mixed-media retrieval for teams already on AWS, especially video and audio archives processed through S3. Ahead on Reliability, 95 against 73; Security & auth, 91 against 55; Transparency & trust, 79 against 72.
- Cohere Embed and Rerank, good for Best when reranking is the job, or for long multilingual documents and image-heavy material where a 128K embedding context helps, with a cheaper Fast model for queries against a Pro index. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 92 against 76; Agent ergonomics, 87 against 78; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 90 against 50. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings | Cohere Embed and Rerank |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 95 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 76 | 92 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 87 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 91 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 50 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings | Cohere Embed and Rerank |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Cohere |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://bedrock-runtime.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://api.cohere.com/v2/embed` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for embed text | $0.0675 per 1M tokens | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Service Terms. The AWS SDKs are Apache-2.0 | MIT (SDK) |
| Last release | 2025-10-28 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2022-09-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-05-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | yes |
| Popularity | 18.1M npm/wk, 573.7M PyPI/wk | 400 stars, 556k npm/wk, 2.6M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |