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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 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.

About Cohere

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

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