{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cohere-chat", "name": "Cohere Chat API (Command models)", "vendor": "Cohere", "vendorUrl": "https://cohere.com", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Cohere's Chat API generates text with the Command family of models over REST (v2 chat), with tool use, structured outputs, citations and streaming. SDKs cover Python, TypeScript, Java and Go.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-chat.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-python", "license": "Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cohere" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cohere-ai" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/cohere-ai/cohere-go/v2" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API key from the dashboard, self-serve. A trial key is created at sign-up. A production key needs a team Owner to complete the Go to Production form and accept the SaaS agreement. Team roles are Owner and User. No key scopes or expiry were found in the docs.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Trial keys are free with no card, limited to 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month, and not for commercial use. Production keys bill per input and output token, monthly or at $250 outstanding. Current Command prices are in a script-drawn tab of cohere.com/pricing that we could not read. Production keys stay at trial limits on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision (checked 2026-10-09).", "priceSummary": "from $2.50 / 1M in", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the OpenAPI file or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/chat-api", "rateLimitsUrl": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cohere.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cohere-ai/cohere-developer-experience/main/cohere-openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm", "inference.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "free-tier", "no-card", "openapi", "llms-txt", "openai-compatible", "python", "typescript", "java", "go", "status-page", "soc2", "bug-bounty" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 391, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1218, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 30, "reliability": 64, "schema": 84, "security": 57, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A public OpenAPI file, Markdown twins of every docs page and SDKs in four languages make the Chat API easy for an agent to read. Production keys do not cover the four newest Command models, whose limits are set by sales, and the SaaS agreement lets Cohere share API data with third parties.", "bestFor": "Teams that want Command models for RAG with citations, tool use and multilingual work, and that may later move to a private deployment or Model Vault.", "strengths": [ "Public OpenAPI 3.1 file in the docs repository, last changed 29 September 2026, and a Markdown twin of every docs page", "A trial key is created at sign-up with no card, limited to 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month", "Official SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Java and Go, each with a release on 26 August 2026", "JSON Schema structured outputs, `strict_tools` (beta), citations, reasoning budgets and safety modes on the v2 chat request", "The trust centre lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and a bug bounty, with nine sub-processors, all in the US" ], "weaknesses": [ "Production keys work like trial keys on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision. The docs send production use of those models to sales or to Model Vault", "Prices for current Command models sit in a script-drawn tab of the pricing page that we could not read. Only legacy prices appear in the page text", "The SaaS agreement of 8 April 2025 grants Cohere an irrevocable right to use API data to improve its services and to share it with third parties", "No Retry-After header, backoff guidance or idempotency key was found in the reviewed documentation", "The SaaS agreement forbids use of the services for benchmarking or competitive analysis. Recorded as a fact, and it matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `POST https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` with `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. `model` and `messages` are the only required fields", "Use `command-a-03-2025`, `command-r-08-2024`, `command-r-plus-08-2024` or `command-r7b-12-2024` for production traffic. Newer variants stay at trial limits on a production key", "Keep a trial key under 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month, and do not use it for commercial work", "Set `response_format` with a `json_schema` for structured output, and tell the model to produce JSON when using `json_object` without a schema", "Ask the account Owner to turn off training under Data Controls in the dashboard before sending confidential prompts" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 30, "reliability": 64, "schema": 84, "security": 57, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 83, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-09", "maintenance": "2026-10-09", "payments": "2026-10-09", "reliability": "2026-10-09", "schema": "2026-10-09", "security": "2026-10-09", "transparency": "2026-10-09" }, "last": "2026-10-09", "oldest": "2026-10-09", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install cohere # or: npm i cohere-ai", "http": "curl --request POST \\\n --url https://api.cohere.ai/v2/chat \\\n --header 'accept: application/json' \\\n --header 'content-type: application/json' \\\n --header \"Authorization: bearer $CO_API_KEY\" \\\n --data '{\"model\":\"command-a-plus-05-2026\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cohere-chat" }, "sameCompany": [ "cohere-embed", "cohere-transcribe-03-2026", "cohere-north" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cohere Inc.", "domain": "cohere.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-03-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cohere.com/saas-agreement", "privacy": "https://cohere.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.cohere.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cohere.com/v2/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The Commercial SaaS Agreement (last updated 8 April 2025) names Cohere Inc., 171 John Street, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, and is governed by Ontario law.", "The privacy policy (last updated 1 May 2026) says it does not apply to customer inputs and outputs under an enterprise agreement, which the agreement and a DPA govern. The DPA is sent on request.", "The OpenAPI file names https://api.cohere.com as the server and the chat guide's examples call https://api.cohere.ai. Both are Cohere's.", "cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. The trust centre holds a responsible disclosure policy for the bug bounty.", "status.cohere.ai redirects to status.cohere.com, whose robots.txt answers 404, so the host publishes no rules.", "RDAP for cohere.com gives a registration date of 2000-03-07." ], "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.json", "live": { "slug": "cohere-chat", "probe": { "target": "https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T01:25:42.069008936Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 149, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 149, "p95ms24h": 238, "samples24h": 250, "samples30d": 4615, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 85, "ok": 85 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 15, "ok": 15 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cohere.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-28T01:19:09.392876768Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cohere-ai/cohere-python", "version": "7.3.0", "released": "2026-10-21", "seenAt": "2026-10-27T10:52:00.899627433Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cohere-ai", "version": "8.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-27T10:52:00.252779746Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "cohere", "version": "7.3.0", "released": "2026-10-21", "seenAt": "2026-10-27T10:52:00.053712739Z" } ], "githubStars": 406, "npmWeekly": 472920, "pypiWeekly": 2752859, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cohere.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T15:32:52.030388675Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cohere.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T14:57:38.789557585Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cohere.com", "registered": "2000-03-07", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/cohere.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:51:19.844101935Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cohere.com/v2/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:43:43.714392162Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-23T01:45:05.63875027Z", "fingerprint": "1cd59b811b6e" }, { "url": "https://docs.cohere.com/docs/deprecations", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:43:42.410290979Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9848f1f6c54c" }, { "url": "https://cohere.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:40:46.595828611Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-22T01:12:07.607234773Z", "fingerprint": "486f003378ec" }, { "url": "https://cohere.com/saas-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T03:40:48.39764244Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-22T01:12:09.664490929Z", "fingerprint": "ad7f4aec9406" } ], "models": { "command-r-plus-08-2024": { "openrouterId": "cohere/command-r-plus-08-2024", "tools": true, "structuredOutputs": true, "jsonMode": true, "reasoning": false, "input": [ "text" ], "promptCaching": false, "contextTokens": 128000, "maxOutput": 4000, "checkedAt": "2026-10-27T23:49:19.214234221Z" } }, "github": { "repo": "cohere-ai/cohere-python", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:19:41.547198192Z", "stars": 406, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-21T15:03:34Z", "openIssues": 2, "openPRs": 19, "issuesOpened90d": 10, "issuesClosed90d": 8, "prsMerged90d": 6, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 44, "success": 36, "failure": 8, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-21T14:30:24Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 2, "medianDays": 6.9 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T01:25:42.069008936Z" } }, "answer": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Router.com (Ramp Router)'s 54.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Router.com (Ramp Router) leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "ramp-router", "name": "Router.com (Ramp Router)", "vendor": "Ramp", "vendorUrl": "https://router.com", "kind": "router", "category": "inference", "summary": "Router.com (Ramp Router) is Ramp's LLM gateway. One API key reaches OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and open-weight models through OpenAI Responses, Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages endpoints, with fallbacks, Flex-tier routing, shadow testing and benchmark aliases.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp-router", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp-router.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp-router.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ramp-router.json", "repo": "https://github.com/ramp-public/ramp-cli", "license": "Closed service under the Router Terms of Service (last updated 31 August 2026). The Ramp CLI that configures coding agents for Router is MIT.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.router.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@ramp/router" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Router API key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` or `X-Api-Key`. A person signs up in the browser with Sign in with Ramp, or by email or Google with a business email address on a business domain (Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Proton and similar are refused); other people can ask router@ramp.com for manual onboarding. Keys are created on the dashboard's API keys page and shown once, or by the Ramp CLI after browser approval. Each key can carry a lifetime or periodic spend cap and be locked, unlocked or revoked (https://docs.router.com/api/endpoint.md, https://docs.router.com/resources/signup-eligibility.md).", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Routing is free through 2026, and models are billed at list price per 1M tokens from account credit. Router.com says the first $26 of credits are free. Requests served with the caller's own provider keys carry no Router charge, unless they fall back to Router's shared key. No routing price after 2026 was found. Per-model prices are public at https://router.com/models and https://docs.router.com/supported-models.md.", "priceSummary": "0% fee", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs at https://docs.router.com (all 41 Markdown pages read on 27 October 2026). 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No OpenAPI document, status page, changelog or published rate limits were found. Signup needs a US business email in a browser, and Ramp records prompts and outputs for a year by default unless switched off.", "bestFor": "Teams in the US that want one key for OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and open-weight models, with routing to cheaper tiers and per-request cost, and can switch off content recording.", "strengths": [ "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page, with a field table for each endpoint and an error reference with an action per code", "`GET /v1/models` returns limits, tool, structured-output, caching and reasoning support, and per-provider prices for each model", "Fallback lists of up to 15 provider, model and tier candidates, with timeouts that bound each attempt", "Every response names the serving provider, and Responses calls return `usage.cost` in USD", "Routing is free through 2026, BYOK requests carry no Router charge, and the first $26 of credits are free" ], "weaknesses": [ "Ramp-side content recording is on by default and keeps prompts, outputs and tool calls for one year", "No OpenAPI document, status page, changelog, SLA or published rate limits were found", "Signup needs a US business email domain or Sign in with Ramp, in a browser", "No batch, embeddings or files routes, and Chat Completions lacks fallback lists and cost", "No routing price after 31 December 2026 was found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Switch off content recording in Settings before sending private data. It is on by default and keeps prompts and outputs for a year", "Read model ids from `GET /v1/models` at runtime. Ids are account-specific, an unknown one is a 404, and Gemini ids need your own Google key", "Use `POST /v1/responses` with a `models` list for fallbacks. Router stops falling back once a stream has started", "Set `fallback_timeout` and `provider_timeout`, or `allow_flex_tier: false`, when latency matters. Flex routing is on by default", "Treat both `401 invalid_api_key` and `401 api_key_deactivated` as a possibly locked key, and stop retrying on `402`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 59, "payments": 40, "reliability": 25, "schema": 58, "security": 66, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 83, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-27", "maintenance": "2026-10-27", "payments": "2026-10-27", "reliability": "2026-10-27", "schema": "2026-10-27", "security": "2026-10-27", "transparency": "2026-10-27" }, "last": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-27", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://router.com/install.sh | sh # Ramp CLI, configures Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes or Conductor", "http": "curl https://api.router.com/v1/responses \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $RAMP_ROUTER_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"models\":[\"openai:gpt-5.4-mini\",\"fireworks:accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k3\"],\"input\":\"Reply with one word: pong.\",\"max_output_tokens\":16}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.router", "tool": "https://letme.dev/ramp-router" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Routing fee", "unit": "pct", "usd": 0, "note": "Free through 2026. Models are billed at list price" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 4, "note": "claude-opus-5-5, 1,000,000-token context" }, { "item": "Claude Opus 5.5 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 20 }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "gpt-6.1-sol, 1,050,000-token context" }, { "item": "GPT-6.1 Sol output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 10 }, { "item": "Kimi K3 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 3, "note": "kimi-k3, served by Fireworks or Baseten" }, { "item": "Kimi K3 output", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 15 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Ramp Business Corporation", "domain": "router.com", "domainRegistered": "1995-07-26", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://ramp.com/legal/developer-terms/developer-terms/router-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://ramp.com/legal/privacy-terms/privacy-terms/router-privacy-notice", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-27", "notes": [ "The Router Terms of Service (last updated 31 August 2026) name Ramp Business Corporation, 28 W. 23rd Street, Floor 2, New York, NY 10010. The legal pages render with JavaScript, and the documents were read from the legal site's own script files.", "The Router Privacy Notice URL linked from router.com and the docs answers 301 to Ramp's general privacy policy. The notice itself, last updated 19 August 2026, exists only in the legal site's script bundle.", "No status page found. status.router.com does not resolve, router.com/status answers 404, and no status link appears in the docs or on router.com.", "No changelog found. The docs sitemap has none, and /changelog.md on docs.router.com returns the docs app shell. The Ramp CLI's tagged releases are the only dated release record.", "router.com/.well-known/security.txt gives security-external@ramp.com as the contact and expires on 18 March 2027.", "RDAP gives router.com a registration date of 26 July 1995 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar, so the domain predates Ramp. The earlier API host router-api.ramp.com still answers." ], "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp-router.json", "live": { "slug": "ramp-router", "probe": { "target": "https://api.router.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-28T01:25:59.300636114Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 326, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 329, "p95ms24h": 429, "samples24h": 18, "samples30d": 18, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 15, "ok": 15 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-28T01:25:59.300636114Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model router", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cohere", "b": "Ramp", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat", "b": "https://api.router.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT", "b": "Closed service under the Router Terms of Service (last updated 31 August 2026). 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Router.com (Ramp Router) leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cohere Chat API (Command models) or Router.com (Ramp Router)?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Cohere Chat API (Command models) and Router.com (Ramp Router) need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Cohere Chat API (Command models) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat and Router.com (Ramp Router) at https://api.router.com/v1.", "question": "Can an agent call Cohere Chat API (Command models) and Router.com (Ramp Router) without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 64 against 25", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 58", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 59", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 67" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "Teams that want Command models for RAG with citations, tool use and multilingual work, and that may later move to a private deployment or Model Vault.", "slug": "cohere-chat", "watchFor": "Production keys work like trial keys on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-ramp-router.json", "title": "Prism Inference vs Router.com (Ramp Router)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prism-inference-vs-ramp-router" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-reflection-beam.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs Beam 1.0", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-reflection-beam" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-sambanova.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs SambaCloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-sambanova" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-siliconflow.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs SiliconFlow", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-siliconflow" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-stepfun-api.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs StepFun API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-stepfun-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-together-inference.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs Together AI Inference", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-together-inference" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-ramp-router.json", "title": "Antseed vs Router.com (Ramp Router)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antseed-vs-ramp-router" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-routerplus.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs RouterPlus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-routerplus" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-vercel-ai-gateway.json", "title": "Router.com (Ramp Router) vs Vercel AI Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ramp-router-vs-vercel-ai-gateway" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 39, "cohere-chat": 64, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "ramp-router": 25, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "cohere-chat": 84, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "ramp-router": 58, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "cohere-chat": 72, "edge": "ramp-router", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "ramp-router": 77, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 9, "cohere-chat": 57, "edge": "ramp-router", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "ramp-router": 66, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "cohere-chat": 30, "edge": "ramp-router", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "ramp-router": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "cohere-chat": 72, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "ramp-router": 59, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 7, "cohere-chat": 74, "edge": "cohere-chat", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "ramp-router": 67, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Router.com (Ramp Router)'s 54.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Router.com (Ramp Router) leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cohere-chat": "A public OpenAPI file, Markdown twins of every docs page and SDKs in four languages make the Chat API easy for an agent to read. Production keys do not cover the four newest Command models, whose limits are set by sales, and the SaaS agreement lets Cohere share API data with third parties.", "ramp-router": "Detailed Markdown docs with typed error codes, per-model capability data and routing an agent can set per request. No OpenAPI document, status page, changelog or published rate limits were found. Signup needs a US business email in a browser, and Ramp records prompts and outputs for a year by default unless switched off." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-ramp-router", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-ramp-router.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-ramp-router.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-ramp-router.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Router.com (Ramp Router)'s 54.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Router.com (Ramp Router) leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Cohere Chat API (Command models): grade B, 64.7/100, rank #391 of 1218. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cohere-chat.json\n- Router.com (Ramp Router): grade C, 54.5/100, rank #798 of 1218. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ramp-router.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ramp-router.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 466 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cohere Chat API (Command models) (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want Command models for RAG with citations, tool use and multilingual work, and that may later move to a private deployment or Model Vault.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 64 against 25\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 58\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 59\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 67\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Production keys work like trial keys on Command A+, Reasoning, Translate and Vision. The docs send production use of those models to sales or to Model Vault\n\n### Router.com (Ramp Router) (C)\n\nGood for: Teams in the US that want one key for OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and open-weight models, with routing to cheaper tiers and per-request cost, and can switch off content recording.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 72\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 57\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n\nWatch for: Ramp-side content recording is on by default and keeps prompts, outputs and tool calls for one year\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cohere Chat API (Command models) | Router.com (Ramp Router) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 64 | 25 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +39 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 58 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 77 | Router.com (Ramp Router) +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 66 | Router.com (Ramp Router) +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Router.com (Ramp Router) +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 59 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 67 | Cohere Chat API (Command models) +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.7 · B** | **54.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cohere Chat API (Command models) | Router.com (Ramp Router) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model router |\n| Vendor | Cohere | Ramp |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` | `https://api.router.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT | Closed service under the Router Terms of Service (last updated 31 August 2026). The Ramp CLI that configures coding agents for Router is MIT. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-10-27 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-04-08 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 1.7k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cohere Chat API (Command models).** A public OpenAPI file, Markdown twins of every docs page and SDKs in four languages make the Chat API easy for an agent to read. Production keys do not cover the four newest Command models, whose limits are set by sales, and the SaaS agreement lets Cohere share API data with third parties.\n\n**Router.com (Ramp Router).** Detailed Markdown docs with typed error codes, per-model capability data and routing an agent can set per request. No OpenAPI document, status page, changelog or published rate limits were found. Signup needs a US business email in a browser, and Ramp records prompts and outputs for a year by default unless switched off.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cohere Chat API (Command models)\n\n1. Call `POST https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` with `Authorization: bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. `model` and `messages` are the only required fields\n2. Use `command-a-03-2025`, `command-r-08-2024`, `command-r-plus-08-2024` or `command-r7b-12-2024` for production traffic. Newer variants stay at trial limits on a production key\n3. Keep a trial key under 20 chat requests a minute and 1,000 calls a month, and do not use it for commercial work\n4. Set `response_format` with a `json_schema` for structured output, and tell the model to produce JSON when using `json_object` without a schema\n5. Ask the account Owner to turn off training under Data Controls in the dashboard before sending confidential prompts\n\n### Router.com (Ramp Router)\n\n1. Switch off content recording in Settings before sending private data. It is on by default and keeps prompts and outputs for a year\n2. Read model ids from `GET /v1/models` at runtime. Ids are account-specific, an unknown one is a 404, and Gemini ids need your own Google key\n3. Use `POST /v1/responses` with a `models` list for fallbacks. Router stops falling back once a stream has started\n4. Set `fallback_timeout` and `provider_timeout`, or `allow_flex_tier: false`, when latency matters. Flex routing is on by default\n5. Treat both `401 invalid_api_key` and `401 api_key_deactivated` as a possibly locked key, and stop retrying on `402`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cohere Chat API (Command models) or Router.com (Ramp Router)?\n\nCohere Chat API (Command models) scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against Router.com (Ramp Router)'s 54.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Router.com (Ramp Router) leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Cohere Chat API (Command models) and Router.com (Ramp Router) need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Cohere Chat API (Command models) and Router.com (Ramp Router) without installing anything?\n\nYes. Cohere Chat API (Command models) has a hosted endpoint at https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat and Router.com (Ramp Router) at https://api.router.com/v1.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-ramp-router.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cohere-chat-vs-ramp-router.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cohere-chat\", \"b\": \"ramp-router\"}`. 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