Cohere vs Decart

Cohere — Foundation Models · Private · $7B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced

Relationship

Model Vault and Cogito do comparable work on model hosting; both also serve buyers who need to serve a model in production; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

3 of 9 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale band

3 of 9 capabilities — Shares model hosting, model inference and text generation.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship API service, application, infrastructure service and 1 more.

Ludbee product records

Same scale band — Both growth-stage private.

Ludbee scale bands · from valuation and funding figures

Aligned comparison

FieldCohereDecart
Valuation$7B$4B Decart has 43% less
Employees500—
Founded20192023 4 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model APIAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model API match
HeadquartersToronto, CanadaTel Aviv, Israel

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Model hostingModel inferenceText generation

Not verified for Decart · 6

Agent orchestrationDocument extractionEmail assistanceKnowledge retrievalVector searchWorkflow automation

Recorded for Cohere. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Cohere · 5

GPU programmingImage editingModel trainingVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for Decart. Cohere’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cohere

Application

CompassApplication

An enterprise search and discovery system over a company's own scattered data, sold as a configured end-to-end product rather than as a raw retrieval API.

NorthApplication

Workplace assistant that runs agents over a company's internal documents and tools, deployable in the customer's own environment.

North AutomationsApplication

Workflow-orchestration layer inside Cohere North that lets employees describe a goal in plain language and turns it into a coordinated, multi-model, multi-step automation with approval checkpoints and usage tracking.

API service

ParseAPI service

Document parsing that turns enterprise documents, tables and images into structured data for search and agents to consume.

Infrastructure service

Model VaultInfrastructure service

Fully managed, network-isolated SaaS inference platform for serving Cohere's embedding, reranking and generative models in production, with auto-scaling and no rate limits.

Model API

Cohere PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Cohere's generation, embedding and reranking models, billed per token.

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.