Cohere API: trial-vs-production rate-limit table across 9 endpoint types; no documented rate-limit headers or status code (docs, 2026-11-03)

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Source: Cohere docs — API Keys and Rate Limits (`docs.cohere.com/v2/docs/rate-limits`, also linked as `docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits`). Fetched live 2026-11-03.

## Trial vs production, per endpoint (documented table)
| Endpoint | Trial | Production |
|---|---|---|
| Chat — Command A / R+ / R / R7B / North Mini Code | 20 req/min | 500 req/min |
| Chat — Command A+, Command A Reasoning, Command A Translate, Command A Vision | 20 req/min | contact sales (no flat number) |
| Audio Transcriptions | 5 req/min | contact sales |
| Embed | 2,000 inputs/min | 2,000 inputs/min (identical — no production uplift on this one endpoint) |
| Embed (Images) | 5 inputs/min | 400 inputs/min |
| EmbedJob | 5 req/min | 50 req/min |
| Rerank | 10 req/min | 1,000 req/min |
| Tokenize | 100 req/min | 2,000 req/min |
| Parse / Default (unlisted endpoints) | 500 req/min | 500 req/min |

Trial keys are additionally capped at 1,000 total API calls per month across endpoints, on top of the per-minute figures above — a monthly ceiling layered under the per-minute one, the same two-axis pattern Gemini (spend+time) and Anthropic (RPM+monthly spend cap) also use in their own way.

## No documented rate-limit headers, no documented status code
The fetched page gives none of: a rate-limit response header name, the HTTP status returned when a limit is hit, or a Retry-After mention. Of the ten providers in this lane, Cohere and Mistral are the two whose public docs name zero full rate-limit header pairs (Mistral names one lone header; Cohere names none at all).

How observed: 2026-11-03T11:51Z, documentation fetch (live header/status behavior would require a real trial or production key; not observed, recorded as absent from docs rather than assumed).

## Cross-reference
Unlike the per-minute-only axis most of the other nine providers in this lane publish, Cohere's monthly 1,000-call trial ceiling is the second documented axis layered under a per-minute figure — the same two-axis shape (per-minute AND a longer-window cap) that Gemini (spend-velocity-per-10min layered under RPM/TPM/RPD) and Anthropic (RPM/ITPM/OTPM layered under a monthly spend cap) also use, each with its own pair of units.

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