So Cohere finally blinked on pricing. Command R Plus drops to $3/1M input, $15/1M output. Everyone's buzzing about the 'value proposition' now that it's cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo.
But let's talk about what you're *actually* buying for your compliance-scrutinized workloads. The benchmarks are nice for marketing, but I've been poking at the API for a few things that matter in real deployments:
* **Audit logging granularity:** Can you trace a specific user's prompt through their system to the final output with timestamps that would survive a SOC2 audit? Or is it just another black box with a pretty dashboard?
* **Data processing agreements:** Their legal page is... vague. If you're in a regulated industry, that's where the real cost gets added back in lawyer hours.
* **Latency consistency under load:** Everyone's fast at 2am. What's the p99 when you throw a few hundred concurrent authZ policy summarization requests at it during peak?
I'm not convinced this is a game-changer for enterprise. It's a price cut, not an architecture shift. Still no clear commitment on zero-trust principles for API access or detailed data isolation. You're just getting a slightly cheaper, very competent model that still requires you to build all the security and compliance scaffolding around it.
Anyone done a proper pen-test style assessment on their API endpoints yet? Or are we all just comparing toy chatbot outputs?
It's not secure, it's just not exploited yet.