Baichuan Open Platform vs Cohere

In short

• Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Runs models for you, Search over your data

Baichuan Open Platform

Baichuan Open Platform provides API access to Baichuan language models, search, embeddings, knowledge bases, and agent-building tools.

Plans

Baichuan-M3-Plus

输入：0.005元/千tokens；输出：0.009元/千tokens

• 32k context
• 00:00 ~ 24:00 daily pricing
• Medical search is charged separately

Baichuan-M3

输入：0.01元/千tokens；输出：0.03元/千tokens

• 32k context
• 00:00 ~ 24:00 daily pricing

Baichuan-M2-Plus

输入：0.01元/千tokens；输出：0.03元/千tokens

• 32k context
• 00:00 ~ 24:00 daily pricing
• Medical search is charged separately

Baichuan-M2

输入：0.002元/千tokens；输出：0.02元/千tokens

• 32k context
• 00:00 ~ 24:00 daily pricing

Baichuan4-Turbo

0.015元/千tokens

• 32k context
• Input and output included
• 00:00 ~ 24:00 daily pricing

Baichuan4-Air

0.00098元/千tokens

• 32k context
• Input and output included
• 00:00 ~ 24:00 daily pricing

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Choice of models — “模型调用 Baichuan-M3-Plus” source
• Self-hosted — “4090单卡可部署” source
• API — “Free 永久免费调用 Baichuan-M3 Plus API” source
• Runs models for you — “模型调用 Baichuan4-Turbo” source
• Search over your data — “知识库API接口，对Embeddings模型和文件数据存储两部分分别收费，具体收费明细如下：” source

Cohere

Cohere provides enterprise AI models, APIs, search, document processing, and agentic workplace products.

Plans

North

Price on request

• Intuitive interface
• Purpose-built generative models
• Intelligent search
• AI agents for routine tasks and complex workflows

Compass

Price on request

• Pre-built data connectors
• Intelligent search
• Document parsing
• Managed index

Model Vault

• $4.00 per hour per instance
• $2,500 per month per instance
• $5.00 per hour per instance
• $3,250 per month per instance
• $5.00 per hour per instance
• $3,250 per month per instance
• $5.00 per hour per instance
• $3,250 per month per instance
• $5.00 per hour per instance
• $3,250 per month per instance
• $10.00 per hour per instance
• $6,500 per month per instance
• $4.00 per hour per instance
• $2,500 per month per instance
• $7.00 per hour per instance
• $4,300 per month per instance

• Fully managed model deployment
• No shared resources or multi-tenancy overhead
• Seamless integration with Cohere North
• Simple startup and self-serve model access
• Fixed or Flex pricing plans available

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Choice of models — “Your model selection reflects your relative prioritization of model performance and speed.” source
• Self-hosted — “On-prem or isolated VPCs” source
• API — “This API key will be available on the dashboard for you to copy, as well as in the dashboard section called “API Keys.”” source
• Runs models for you — “Model Vault is our dedicated, fully managed platform to run Cohere models securely, at scale, and with guaranteed performance.” source
• Search over your data — “Our intelligent search and discovery system designed to surface insights from across your business.” source

Security

• SOC 2 Type II — “Our API platform is hosted on industry-leading cloud infrastructure and is SOC 2 Type II compliant” source
• SOC 2 — “Our API platform is hosted on industry-leading cloud infrastructure and is SOC 2 Type II compliant” source

Latest updates

• 2026-09-09 Announcing Cohere's North Small Translate (north-small-translate-1-0)

  North Small Translate is available through the free-tier Chat V2 API and as open weights in W4A16, FP8, and BF16 for non-commercial use.

• 2026-08-27 Meet Cohere Parse (parse-v5.0)

  Parse turns documents into Markdown and extracts text, tables, lists, forms, images and captions, page boundaries, and visual element locations.

• 2026-07-07 Meet Cohere Transcribe Arabic (cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026)

  Cohere Transcribe Arabic is fine-tuned using Arabic speech data and supports Arabic and English.