# Cohere review (2026): is it worth $93 a month, billed yearly? > All-in-one platform for coaches and healers with courses and community Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Cohere is a platform aimed at coaches and healers that combines a services website, scheduling, payments, courses, workshops, communities and memberships with email marketing. Each plan also bundles business coaching, an onboarding program and a listing in the Cohere Marketplace. Plans differ mainly by how much setup help and coaching comes with them. - **Category:** Courses & Communities - **Made by:** Cohere - **Website:** https://cohere.live - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you only need course hosting, as most course tools charge less. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Cohere is a paid product, starting at $93 per month, billed annually ($111 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Impact | $93 per month, billed annually ($111 billed monthly) | Software plus group business coaching: unlimited contacts and storage, services website, email marketing up to 5,000 emails, group onboarding and a year of Cohere Academy. | | Accelerate | $166 per month, billed annually ($197 billed monthly) | Adds done-for-you setup of 2 services, four 1:1 onboarding or success calls, up to 50,000 emails, SMS reminders, custom domain, Zapier and a dedicated success coach. | | Transform and Scale | $287 per month, billed annually ($347 billed monthly) | Adds a custom pro website, 90 days of ad management support on the annual plan, up to 100,000 emails, 5 sub-accounts and setup and migration for 4 services. | Read from https://cohere.live/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cohere before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows 20% off for annual billing; Impact is $93 a month billed annually against $111 month to month. Source: https://cohere.live/pricing ## Key features - **Courses, workshops and memberships:** Unlimited live and self-paced group courses, workshops, memberships and communities on every plan. - **Scheduling and payments:** Unlimited 1:1 scheduling pages and payments; the pricing table shows a 0% Cohere transaction fee on every plan. - **CRM and email marketing:** Unlimited contacts with monthly email allowances of 5,000, 50,000 or 100,000 by plan; sequences and automations start at Accelerate. - **Business coaching and academy:** Group onboarding and the Cohere Academy on all plans; a dedicated 1:1 success coach starts at Accelerate. - **Marketplace listing:** Offers can be listed in the Cohere Marketplace; the vendor presents it as a way to be discovered by new clients. - **Caela AI assistant:** A built-in AI assistant with a marketing agent for planning launches and copy. ## Good for - Coaches and healers who want one tool for booking, courses and community - Solo practitioners who want setup help and business coaching included ## Worth knowing - No free plan or free trial is listed; the site points to booking a call or purchasing. - Email overages beyond the plan allowance cost $0.01 per email. - Custom domain, Zapier, SMS reminders and a dedicated success coach need Accelerate or higher. - It is built for coaches and healers, and the monthly price runs higher than most course-only platforms. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Cohere sells courses, workshops, memberships and scheduling, with business coaching bundled in, from $93 a month billed annually. There is no free plan or trial, and the price runs above most course platforms. - **Value for money: C.** $93 a month billed annually is just past the dearer-quarter line of $89, though it includes group business coaching. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no free trial is listed on the pages. - **Features: B.** Courses, workshops, memberships, scheduling, payments, CRM and email on every plan. The listing names no gap in the core work. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You set up services, pages and email. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with only Zoom and Zapier listed as integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cohere's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among course and community platforms - Cohere's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 8 of the 98 other course and community platforms we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on features (B, above 56 of 98) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $93 a month, against a middle price of $36 for the category: 51 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 17 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/courses-communities ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Cohere you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 76 of the 98 other course and community platforms grade higher. It costs $1,116 a year. - You could make: Online courses and appointment booking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once. - You could not: A members' space with posts, chat and events that people keep coming back to. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: People on the other end: coaches. No app builder makes those. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Zoom, Zapier **Tags:** Online courses, Community, Appointment booking, Email campaigns, AI features, Webinars ## Alternatives - [Kajabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kajabi): All-in-one platform for selling courses, coaching and communities. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cohere-vs-kajabi) - [Simplero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simplero): All-in-one platform for courses, community, email and coaching. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cohere-vs-simplero) - [Mighty Networks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mighty-networks): Community platform with courses, livestreams and paid memberships. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cohere-vs-mighty-networks) - [Podia](https://toolgpa.com/tools/podia): Website, store, courses, community and email for creators in one place. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cohere-vs-podia) - [Heights Platform](https://toolgpa.com/tools/heights-platform): Course, challenge and community platform with built-in AI tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cohere-vs-heights-platform) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://cohere.live/pricing - https://cohere.live/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cohere Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).