Tools
Cohere vs Weaviate
Cohere or Weaviate? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Runs models for you, Search over your data
- Only Weaviate states: Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows
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
- 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.
- 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.
- Meet Cohere Transcribe Arabic (cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026)
Cohere Transcribe Arabic is fine-tuned using Arabic speech data and supports Arabic and English.
Weaviate
Weaviate is an open-source AI database for storing, searching, and retrieving vectorized data in self-hosted or managed deployments.
Plans
Free
Free
- Always free — 1 cluster per user
- 100,000 objects · 1 GB memory · 10 GB disk
- 1 collection, up to 3 tenants
- Embeddings (2,000 req/day) + Query Agent (1,000 req/mo)
- Basic Support
Flex
- Starts at $45 /mo
- Pay-as-you-go, monthly, no commitment
- Shared cloud cluster with full core DB toolkit + replication
- Baseline security with RBAC
- Highly available clusters — 99.5% uptime
- Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
- Standard support — next-business-day Sev 1
Premium
Price on request
- Prepaid contract with predictable spend
- Choice of shared or dedicated deployment
- Trusted reliability — up to 99.95% uptime
- Global coverage on AWS, GCP & Azure
- Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
- Enterprise support — as fast as 1-hour Sev 1 + dedicated Technical Account Team
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Seamlessly connect your data with models from a range of providers.” source
- Self-hosted — “Weaviate’s open source AI database can be self-hosted or run as a managed service in Weaviate Cloud to reduce operational overhead.” source
- API — “Use SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, or connect to GraphQL or REST APIs.” source
- Official SDKs — “Use SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, or connect to GraphQL or REST APIs.” source
- Runs models for you — “Access embedding models hosted in Weaviate Cloud. Simple, pay-as-you-go, GPU-powered.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Pre-built agentic workflows that dynamically interact with your data in Weaviate to perform sync, async, and multi-step tasks.” source
- Search over your data — “Store, index, and search high-dimensional vectors at any scale. The foundation for search, RAG, and agents.” source
Security
- HIPAA — “Stay compliant with SOC 2, HIPAA, data privacy, and explainability.” source
Latest updates
- v1.39.6 - LSM store performance improvements, HNSW ACORN & HFresh index Fixes (v1.39.6)
Adds a Weaviate Embeddings rate limit and removes the /v1/modules endpoint and contextionary extension/concept handlers.
- v1.38.17 - LSM store performance improvements (v1.38.17)
- v1.38.16 - Bug fixes and performance improvements across modules, roaringset, and index queues (v1.38.16)
Fixes replica movement runtime configuration and improves RoaringSet memtable flush and compaction performance.