---
id: cohere
version: "7.0.8"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# cohere

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install cohere
uv add cohere
poetry add cohere

## Description

# Cohere Python SDK

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The Cohere Python SDK allows access to Cohere models across many different platforms: the cohere platform, AWS (Bedrock, Sagemaker), Azure, GCP and Oracle OCI. For a full list of support and snippets, please take a look at the [SDK support docs page](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/cohere-works-everywhere).

## Documentation

Cohere documentation and API reference is available [here](https://docs.cohere.com/).

## Installation

```
pip install cohere
```

## Usage

```Python
import cohere

co = cohere.ClientV2()

response = co.chat(
    model="command-r-plus-08-2024",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello world!"}],
)

print(response)
```

> [!TIP]
> You can set a system environment variable `CO_API_KEY` to avoid writing your api key within your code, e.g. add `export CO_API_KEY=theapikeyforyouraccount`
> in your ~/.zshrc or...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

The Cohere Python SDK provides programmatic access to Cohere's large language models for chat, embedding, and text generation across multiple cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle OCI.

Verdict: A well-maintained, actively developed SDK for accessing Cohere's generative AI models with low installation friction and permissive MIT licensing. No known security vulnerabilities and broad Python version support (3.10–3.15) make it production-ready for multi-cloud AI integrations.

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