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Cohere vs Google Gemini AI comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 9, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.3
Cohere's competitive pricing and faster embedding enhance application development efficiency, despite challenges in measuring overall return.
Sentiment score
3.9
Google Gemini AI improves productivity and efficiency but can incur costs, with variable financial impacts and competitive market standing.
Cohere's Embed English model took less time to embed than OpenAI's embedding ada-002 model.
Engineer at Roche
Cohere helped us with all three aspects: money is saved, time is saved, and we needed fewer resources to meet our end goals.
Senior Solution Architect at Hitachi Systems India Private Ltd
For some of the models it's actually free. It doesn't cost anything, but once you get to production scenarios in which you have to use the API, you have to pay.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.4
Cohere's customer service is positively rated, though some users haven't interacted yet due to lack of significant issues.
Sentiment score
4.0
Customers have mixed feelings about Google Gemini AI support, appreciating online resources but noting potential accessibility issues.
They rely on a self-service approach, providing a lot of information online through blogs and documents.
CTO at AlphaNuTech
Microsoft has done better, though they're not great at it, but they seem to be more responsive.
Senior Consultant at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
it's really difficult to reach them
Chief Technology Officer at MedPiper Technologies Inc
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.0
Cohere's scalability is praised for effective response, but some users note slowdowns with large data and extensive scenarios.
Sentiment score
5.9
Google Gemini AI is praised for scalability but faces concerns over context size, costs, and computing power limitations.
We don't observe many scaling problems because it's an enterprise application.
Founding Engineer at Agentize.AI
Google Gemini handles multiple PDF files and big files efficiently.
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It can conduct research quickly, taking only five to seven minutes to produce a ten-page research document with a reasonable executive summary.
CTO at AlphaNuTech
If you want to grow the amount of information that you want to insert into the model before you provide an answer, you have to use different techniques.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Users generally find Cohere stable, rating it six out of ten, with no major issues or downtime reported.
Sentiment score
7.1
Google Gemini AI is praised for its stable, reliable performance, with minor concerns about occasional hallucinations and alternatives.
We haven't had any issues to escalate to Cohere's support because reranking is an optional feature in our product, and we haven't seen any significant issues so far.
Founding Engineer at Agentize.AI
Everything I've tried so far works without instability, bugs, or hallucinations.
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at University of South Wales
Recently, Google Gemini has been very stable, without performance issues.
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cohere should enhance visual-text integration, similarity accuracy, dashboard features, documentation, and optimize similarity search distances for improvement.
Google Gemini AI needs better customization, response speed, integration, code generation, and creative accuracy to improve user satisfaction.
We want such features because when chatting with clients, we can demonstrate that employing Cohere's reranking model significantly improves results compared to not using it.
Founding Engineer at Agentize.AI
Because it does not have extensive understanding of Oracle functionalities in ERP, it sometimes gives wrong results or the confidence score is lower than desired.
Sr Test engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
During the embedding process, measurable metrics are not visible.
DevOps Engineer at CHI Software
Google Gemini needs more accurate answers and the ability to export data to Excel or Google Sheets.
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
When working on a 20-page document, Google Gemini sometimes loses context about earlier parts.
Chief Technology Officer at MedPiper Technologies Inc
Currently, it operates mostly autonomously, and while it provides structured activities, making the research configuration more accessible and flexible would be beneficial.
CTO at AlphaNuTech
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find Cohere's pricing competitive yet potentially costly when additional services are included, with mixed cost experiences.
Google Gemini AI pricing is competitive but can become costly with multiple licenses due to currency fluctuations.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is expensive to use all Oracle services.
Senior Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cohere's pricing, setup cost, and licensing are better.
Senior Solution Architect at Hitachi Systems India Private Ltd
The prices are competitive compared to competitors.
DevOps Engineer at CHI Software
Google Gemini is free.
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at University of South Wales
The per license cost is on par with others, but with the number of licenses, it becomes expensive.
Chief Technology Officer at MedPiper Technologies Inc
The feature of Gemini 2.5 research is highly discounted.
CTO at AlphaNuTech
 

Valuable Features

Cohere provides efficient, reliable, and cost-effective AI features enhancing business productivity through creative, structured, and secure applications.
Google Gemini AI enhances productivity with multi-modal features, automation, and seamless Google services integration for efficient task management.
This makes it very easy to find and use the catalog to determine whether existing functionality is already implemented, preventing redundant implementations.
Sr Test engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cohere has positively impacted my organization by helping our customers work more efficiently when creating requests, and the embedding results are of very high quality.
DevOps Engineer at CHI Software
I noticed a 10% improvement in my log system after using Cohere.
Senior Data Scientist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature of Google Gemini is its ability to function as an intelligent assistant, providing accurate answers to natural language queries and performing translations.
Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at University of South Wales
The AI capabilities of Google Gemini are a multi-modal LLM which allows me to pass documents, images, and texts in the same prompt.
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
It provides an experimental search module capable of scanning hundreds of websites to deliver summarized data.
Director at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cohere
Ranking in AI Writing Tools
3rd
Ranking in Large Language Models (LLMs)
5th
Ranking in AI Proofreading Tools
5th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
AI Development Platforms (12th)
Google Gemini AI
Ranking in AI Writing Tools
1st
Ranking in Large Language Models (LLMs)
1st
Ranking in AI Proofreading Tools
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
AI Code Assistants (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Large Language Models (LLMs) category, the mindshare of Cohere is 5.3%, down from 15.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Gemini AI is 15.6%, down from 31.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Large Language Models (LLMs) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Google Gemini AI15.6%
Cohere5.3%
Other79.1%
Large Language Models (LLMs)
 

Featured Reviews

AS
Engineer at Roche
Have improved project workflows using faster response times and reduced data embedding costs
One thing that Cohere can improve is related to some distances when I am trying similarity search. Let's suppose I have provided textual data that has been embedded. I have to use some extra process from numpy after embedding the model. In the case of OpenAI embedding models, I do not have to use that extra process, and they provide lower distances compared to my results from Cohere. I was getting distances of approximately 0.005 sometimes, but in the case of Cohere, I was getting distances around 0.5 or sometimes more than that. I think that can be improved. It was possibly because of some configuration or the way I was using it, but I am not exactly sure about that.
Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Tool proves competitive with cost-effectiveness and speed while benefiting decision-making and integration capabilities, but shows room for enhancing creativity and handling large data contextually
There is another benefit in that Google Gemini is highly competitive from a cost perspective. The cost per token is very competitive. It's not the best - the Chinese models such as DeepSeek are better, but I can't use them. From a cost perspective, between European and United States options, Google Gemini is very competitive. It's not only its cost, it's also very performing. The time it takes to process the prompts and context information is very fast. It's one of the fastest models in the market. That's another advantage. There are other models which are also very good in quality but not as fast, such as Anthropic Claude. Google Gemini currently has a very good balance. The AI capabilities of Google Gemini are a multi-modal LLM which allows me to pass documents, images, and texts in the same prompt. Being multi-modal makes my life easier. I don't have to translate information before I can work with it. Google provides free tools to test scenarios, which speeds up development and reduces costs. It's a very fast and accurate model with quality responses.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Educational Organization
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
University
7%
University
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohere?
Compared to models available in the market, Cohere's pricing, setup cost, and licensing are better.
What needs improvement with Cohere?
Cohere could improve in areas where the command model is not as creative as some larger LLMs available in the market, which is expected but noticeable in open-ended generative tasks. Reporting and ...
What is your primary use case for Cohere?
We adopted Cohere primarily for their command model to support enterprise-grade text generation and NLP workflows. There was a use case for one of our customers where they required automated text g...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Gemini?
The pricing of Google Gemini AI is not well understood, so no feedback can be provided on the cost. It was thought to have come together with the device subscription.
What needs improvement with Google Gemini?
Google Gemini AI is not used much because it does not appear to be as responsive or as effective as Alexa when responding to questions, queries, instructions, or commands. When in a room with Googl...
What is your primary use case for Google Gemini?
Google Gemini AI is used for common, basic digital assistant queries such as asking about the weather and the time. Often there are conflicting responses from Google Home, Google Home Mini, and the...
 

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