# Cohere Embed and Rerank vs Nomic Embed (slim)

> Cohere Embed and Rerank scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Nomic Embed's 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Nomic Embed leads on security & auth. Both do embed text. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Cohere Embed and Rerank scores 72.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Nomic Embed's 49.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Nomic Embed leads on security & auth. Both do embed text.

- Cohere Embed and Rerank: BB 72.5, rank #85 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cohere-embed.min.md
- Nomic Embed: D 49.2, rank #532 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nomic-embed.min.md
- 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 Reliability, 73 against 38; Schema & documentation, 92 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 87 against 69; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 90 against 28; Transparency & trust, 72 against 46. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.
- Nomic Embed, good for Teams that want a hosted endpoint for an open-weight model they can also run themselves, with the same vectors either way. Ahead on Security & auth, 62 against 55.

| Category | Cohere Embed and Rerank | Nomic Embed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 73 | 38 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 92 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 87 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 55 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 28 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 46 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cohere Embed and Rerank | Nomic Embed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cohere | Nomic, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cohere.com/v2/embed` | `https://api-atlas.nomic.ai/v1/embedding/text` |
| Price for embed text | not published | $0.10 per 1M tokens |
| Licence | MIT (SDK) | Proprietary hosted API. Model weights Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face. The Python client declares Apache in setup.py and the TypeScript client is MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2025-11-11 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-09-07 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-01 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 400 stars, 556k npm/wk, 2.6M PyPI/wk | 1.9k stars, 8.6k npm/wk, 3.8k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | none |