Cohere
70 pts
1 wins
VS
👑 
MiniMax
85 pts
2 wins
🏆 Overall, MiniMax offers more free value (2/6 categories)
📊 Side-by-Side
Category
Cohere
MiniMax
Free Tier
✅ 1,000 calls/month (Trial Key)
✅ No explicit limit
Free API
✅ 1000 calls/month
✅ ¥15
Rate Limit
Trial rate limits
Varies
Open Source
❌ No
✅ Yes
Free Models
3
2
GitHub Stars
-
⭐ 3,417
🧠 Model Details
Cohere 3 models Command R+
Top RAG and chat model
Rerank
Document reranking for RAG
Embed
Multilingual text embeddings
MiniMax 2 models MiniMax-M2.7
230B params, SOTA in coding/tool-use/search/office, 1M context
MiniMax-01
Million-token context, free to use