Inference Deployment Economics

Cohere's platform enables users to choose between shared, consumption-based inference and dedicated, provisioned inference for models like Embed and Rerank. The decision framework focuses on understanding the workload's request profile (size and type of data processed per request), traffic patterns (sustained vs. bursty), and the trade-offs between latency and throughput to optimize for cost-efficiency and performance. This includes analyzing the break-even points for dedicated infrastructure based on specific workload characteristics.