# Cohere Chat API (Command models) vs SambaCloud (slim)

> SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) to Cohere Chat's 64.7 (B) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Cohere Chat API (Command models)'s 64.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cohere Chat API (Command models) leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do llm inference.

- Cohere Chat API (Command models): B 64.7, rank #342 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-chat.min.md
- SambaCloud: B 66.4, rank #293 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md
- Cohere Chat API (Command models), good 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. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 72 against 67; Transparency & trust, 74 against 63.
- SambaCloud, good for Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 64; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 77 against 72.

| Category | Cohere Chat API (Command models) | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 64 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 84 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 72 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere Chat API (Command models) | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere | SambaNova Systems, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat` | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Cohere's Commercial SaaS Agreement. The SDKs are MIT | Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-04-08 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | 2023-05-27 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |