# Different Types of API Keys and Rate Limits

Cohere offers two kinds of API keys: evaluation keys (free but limited in usage), and production keys (paid and much less limited in usage). You can create a trial or production key on [the API keys page](https://dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys). For more details on pricing please see our [pricing docs](/guides/going-to-production-how-does-cohere-pricing-work).

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Prod keys work like trial keys for newer model variants such as Command A Reasoning. Please contact sales@cohere.com if you intend to use those models in production.
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Trial keys (and prod keys on newer Chat model variants) are limited to 1,000 API calls a month.
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## Chat API (per model)

| Model               | Trial rate limit | Production rate limit    |
| ------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------ |
| Command A+          | 20 req / min     | Contact sales@cohere.com |
| Command A Reasoning | 20 req / min     | Contact sales@cohere.com |
| Command A Translate | 20 req / min     | Contact sales@cohere.com |
| Command A Vision    | 20 req / min     | Contact sales@cohere.com |
| Command A           | 20 req / min     | 500 req / min            |
| Command R+          | 20 req / min     | 500 req / min            |
| Command R           | 20 req / min     | 500 req / min            |
| Command R7B         | 20 req / min     | 500 req / min            |
| North Mini Code     | 20 req / min     | 500 req / min            |

## Other API Endpoints

| Endpoint                             | Trial rate limit   | Production rate limit    |
| ------------------------------------ | ------------------ | ------------------------ |
| [Audio Transcriptions](/api)         | 5 req / min        | Contact sales@cohere.com |
| [Embed](/api)                        | 2,000 inputs / min | 2,000 inputs / min       |
| [Embed (Images)](/api)               | 5 inputs / min     | 400 inputs / min         |
| [EmbedJob](/api)                     | 5 req / min        | 50 req / min             |
| [Rerank](/api)                       | 10 req / min       | 1,000 req / min          |
| [Tokenize](/api)                     | 100 req / min      | 2,000 req / min          |
| [Parse](/api)                        | 500 req / min      | 500 req / min            |
| Default (anything not covered above) | 500 req / min      | 500 req / min            |

If you have any questions or want to speak about getting a rate limit increase, reach out to support@cohere.com.

## Related pages

- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Cohere](../index.md)
- [Cohere API](./cohere-api-index.md)
- [Cohere Labs](./cohere-labs-index.md)
- [Cohere Platform](./cohere-platform-index.md)
- [Cookbooks](./cookbooks-index.md)
- [Deployment Options](./deployment-options-index.md)
- [Embeddings (Vectors, Search, Retrieval)](./embeddings-vectors-search-retrieval-index.md)
- [Get Started](./get-started-index.md)
- [Going to Production](./going-to-production-index.md)

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