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Cohere vs Hugging Face comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cohere
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
19th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
AI Writing Tools (9th), Large Language Models (LLMs) (6th), AI Proofreading Tools (8th)
Hugging Face
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Cohere is 1.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hugging Face is 11.4%, up from 11.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Hugging Face11.4%
Cohere1.1%
Other87.5%
AI Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Gokul Anil - PeerSpot reviewer
Has streamlined test creation and analysis while needing better semantic accuracy for specific domain knowledge
Cohere is very useful because I have been in scenarios where code was written with multiple reusable concepts containing many functionalities covered as different functions, but without descriptions of what particular functions were doing. We used Cohere intelligence and its knowledge on Oracle ERP PPM, and it was able to read through all the TypeScript code and create descriptions intelligently, which were almost 90% correct when reviewed. It was very useful because we had 500-plus reusables, and it was able to analyze all of them and put them into a catalog. This makes it very easy to find and use the catalog to determine whether existing functionality is already implemented, preventing redundant implementations. 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. We can complete many more tests in a day or sprint with Cohere's help. Along with test automation, we handle analysis tasks, and now we have more time for better analysis. We are planning to implement test analysis capabilities as well. Once you receive the requirements and test cases, you can directly use them as input, and it will generate all artifacts and test data.
SwaminathanSubramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Versatility empowers AI concept development despite the multi-GPU challenge
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. Organizations are apprehensive about investing in multi-GPU setups. Additionally, data cleanup is a challenge that needs to be resolved, as data must be mature and pristine.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"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."
"There are numerous libraries available, and the documentation is rich and step-by-step, helping us understand which model to use in particular conditions."
"I appreciate the versatility and the fact that it has generalized many models."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the inference APIs as it takes me a long time to run inferences on my local machine."
"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."
"Overall, the platform is excellent."
 

Cons

"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."
"When performing similarity matching between text descriptions and the catalog descriptions created using Cohere, the matching could be improved."
"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."
"I've worked on three projects using Hugging Face, and only once did we encounter a problem with the code. We had to use another open-source embedding from OpenAI to resolve it. Our team has three members: me, my colleague, and a team leader. We looked at the problem and resolved it."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging."
"Initially, I faced issues with the solution's configuration."
"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."
"I believe Hugging Face has some room for improvement. There are some security issues. They provide code, but API tokens aren't indicated. Also, the documentation for particular models could use more explanation. But I think these things are improving daily. The main change I'd like to see is making the deployment of inference endpoints more customizable for users."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved."
"Implementing a cloud system to showcase historical data would be beneficial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"I recall seeing a fee of nine dollars, and there's also an enterprise option priced at twenty dollars per month."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
"The solution is open source."
"So, it's requires expensive machines to open services or open LLM models."
"We do not have to pay for the product."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
10%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohere?
I'm not in the position to answer that question because I was not the one who deployed that model, but I believe it is because we see the model name as ARN name, so it's most likely coming from Bed...
What needs improvement with Cohere?
It would be better to have a dashboard for users to showcase how reranking helps improve quality. When end users choose the service, they want to see the actual output. The evaluation part is chall...
What is your primary use case for Cohere?
We founded this company two and a half years ago, and since the middle of 2022, we foresaw the trending of generative AI and large language models, so my startup is working on developing generative...
What do you like most about Hugging Face?
My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering.
What needs improvement with Hugging Face?
It is challenging to suggest specific improvements for Hugging Face, as their platform is already very well-organized and efficient. However, they could focus on cleaning up outdated models if they...
What is your primary use case for Hugging Face?
I am working on AI with various large language models for different purposes such as medicine and law, where they are fine-tuned with specific requirements. I download LLMs from Hugging Face for th...
 

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