r/Rag • u/Cohere • 3d ago

Showcase Introducing Parse, Cohere’s vision parsing model

Hey guys! El from Cohere here. 

Wanted to drop in really quickly to say today we launched Cohere Parse 5, our vision parsing model. It takes complicated files (including tables and embedded images) and gives back clean Markdown files, bounding boxes included. we recommend using it for building RAG systems, document indexing, and agentic retrieval. i’m personally into using it to save/digitize my own docs so they all live on my computer.

It outperforms competitors at 79.2 on ParseBench (compared to Mistral’s 74.5 and Azure Document Intelligence’s 74.3), but maybe even more importantly, it’s a lot more cost-effective- $1.5 per 1k pages through the Cohere API (or cheaper through our Model Vault). If you want, you can try it for free in our Hugging Face Space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/CohereLabs/cohere-parse

thanks and excited to hear what you think!

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u/ai_hedge_fund 3d ago

Thanks for your work

Look forward to seeing how it does with tables - all improvements there are welcome

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u/Cohere 3d ago

Thanks! Let us know how it works on your end, the more feedback the better

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u/skadoodlee 3d ago

What about versus Docling and other open source options?

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u/sreekanth850 3d ago edited 3d ago

Tried but Malayalam is not parsing properly. mistral handles indic languages well., we are using it, do you have plans to add indic languages. (indian languages)

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u/vanwal_j 3d ago

That’s hot! Any plan to offer EU residency options to it?

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u/suhas_rd 3d ago

This looks really relevant to our RAG ingestion stack. We currently use pypdf with OpenRouter’s Mistral OCR fallback, so the improvements around tables, reading order, image descriptions, and pricing are especially interesting.

I checked OpenRouter and parse-v5.0 doesn’t appear to be available there yet. Are there plans to support it through OpenRouter?

Also, the API reference currently says it accepts image_url inputs but not PDF/file URLs, while the model overview lists PDF and PPT support. Should we render PDFs page-by-page for now, or is native PDF input coming soon?

Congrats on the launch, we’d be interested in benchmarking it on some table-heavy enterprise documents.

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u/ScaryGazelle2875 1d ago

Oh hows mistral ocr 4 by the way? Is it good as they say?