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Cohere vs Hugging Face comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Cohere
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
12th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
AI Writing Tools (3rd), Large Language Models (LLMs) (5th), AI Proofreading Tools (5th)
Hugging Face
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Cohere is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hugging Face is 7.2%, down from 13.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Hugging Face7.2%
Cohere1.4%
Other91.4%
AI Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

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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.
Mihir Jadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Futurescape Technologies
Integration of open-source models and deployment in cloud apps has drastically improved productivity
The best features Hugging Face offers are Transformers and Spaces to deploy the app in clicks. What I like most about Transformers and Spaces is the ease of use. Hugging Face is like a Git repository, so it is very helpful and easy to use. Hugging Face has positively impacted my organization because we can deploy open-source applications for testing on Spaces, and one of the main things is the models that it provides and the number of open-source models to compare with. The main part is that it offers inference as well for free for many of the models, so we can use it directly in our applications with a few lines of code.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cohere's Embed English v3.0 is a cloud-hosted model that took less time to embed the textual data and was more than 50 to 60% faster than other models, even somewhat faster than text-embedding-3 from OpenAI, helping to reduce development and embedding times."
"The very first thing that I really like about it is the support team. They're really available on Discord, and they answer all of your questions."
"When it creates a new test, it creates it almost 70 to 80% correctly without errors; the time savings are significant—what previously took one or two days can now be completed in two to three hours maximum."
"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."
"Cohere positively impacted my organization by improving the performance of my RAG system."
"Cohere helped us with all three aspects: money is saved, time is saved, and we needed fewer resources to meet our end goals."
"A key advantage of integrating Cohere’s reranking model is that it aligns with client requests to include a reranking module — a widely recognized method for improving RAG quality. Additionally, the API demonstrates strong performance in terms of response speed."
"The best feature Cohere offers is the Reranking model."
"The tool's most valuable feature is that it shows trending models. All the new models, even Google's demo models, appear at the top. You can find all the open-source models in one place. You can use them directly and easily find their documentation. It's very simple to find documentation and write code. If you want to work with AI and machine learning, Hugging Face is a perfect place to start."
"Hugging Face provides open-source models, making it the best open-source and reliable solution."
"The solution is easy to use compared to other frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow."
"It is stable."
"The tool's most valuable feature is that it's open-source and has hundreds of packages already available. This makes it quite helpful for creating our LLMs."
"What I find the most valuable about Hugging Face is that I can check all the models on it and see which ones have the best performance without using another platform."
"I would rate this product nine out of ten."
"Overall, the platform is excellent."
 

Cons

"I believe Cohere can be improved technically by providing more feedback, logs, and metrics for embedding requests, as it currently appears to be a black box without any understanding of quality."
"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."
"The documentation and support could be improved, as there is limited documentation available on the web."
"It's challenging for us to make a conclusion about quality enhancement by using reranking models, as solid evaluation methodology for reranking is still immature."
"When performing similarity matching between text descriptions and the catalog descriptions created using Cohere, the matching could be improved."
"Cohere has text generation. I think it is mainly focused on AI search. If there was a way to combine the searches with images, I think it would be nice to include that."
"One thing that Cohere can improve is related to some distances when I am trying similarity search."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"The solution must provide an efficient LLM."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging."
"The area that needs improvement would be the organization of the materials. It could be clearer and more systematic. It would be good if the layout was clear and we could search the models easily."
"Implementing a cloud system to showcase historical data would be beneficial."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging. Training the model is another hurdle, although I'm only getting into that aspect currently."
"Hugging Face could improve by implementing a search engine or chat bot feature similar to ChatGPT."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We do not have to pay for the product."
"I recall seeing a fee of nine dollars, and there's also an enterprise option priced at twenty dollars per month."
"The solution is open source."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
"The tool is open-source. The cost depends on what task you're doing. If you're using a large language model with around 12 million parameters, it will cost more. On average, Hugging Face is open source so you can download models to your local machine for free. For deployment, you can use any cloud service."
"So, it's requires expensive machines to open services or open LLM models."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Educational Organization
8%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

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 Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

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 needs improvement with Hugging Face?
Everything is pretty much sorted in Hugging Face, but it could be improved if there was an AI chatbot or an AI assistant in Hugging Face platform itself, which can guide you through the whole platf...
What is your primary use case for Hugging Face?
My main use case for Hugging Face is to download open-source models and train on a local machine. We use Hugging Face Transformers for simple and fast integration in our applications and AI-based a...
What advice do you have for others considering Hugging Face?
We have seen improved productivity and time saved from using Hugging Face; for a task that would have taken six hours, it saved us five hours, and we completed it in one hour with the plug-and-play...
 

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