Clarifai API vs Cohere API

Two free Machine Learning APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose Clarifai API for its data: Computer Vision. A free machine learning API by clarifai.com.
Choose Cohere API if you want to call it from browser JavaScript.

	Clarifai API	Cohere API
What it does	Computer Vision. A free machine learning API by clarifai.com.	NLP API for text generation, embeddings, classification and summarization with a free trial tier.
Provider	clarifai.com	Cohere
API key	OAuth	Required
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Unknown	Yes
Status today	Last check failed	Online · 806 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Down	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

Computer Vision. A free machine learning API by clarifai.com.

Strengths

NLP API for text generation, embeddings, classification and summarization with a free trial tier.

Cohere's NLP platform provides customizable large language models and tools for developers to build AI applications.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (neither does, so compare their free tiers).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Both require authentication (OAuth and apiKey).

Cohere API supports CORS, so front-end JavaScript can call it directly. Call the other from a server.