Does Cohere train on your data?
Cohere trains on your inputs only where you have given permission, and says it usually has no access to them at all. The answer was in the notice its policy points to.
No opt-out found in this policy
"Cohere has no access to inputs submitted to its Models and other products. Where a user has given Cohere permission to use inputs and outputs for model training, we take steps to de-identify and strip personal information that may appear in inputs or outputs prior to use in model training."
- 17 Aug 2026
- 5 Oct 2026
- All accounts
- global
- Fetched from the company
- 80F73D2B…963E
How we read it: The privacy policy itself does not answer this; it points three times to a separate Model Training Privacy Notice, and its own summary — Cohere "does not intentionally collect personal information for training purposes" — speaks to intent at collection rather than use. The notice is the document that resolves it, and it does so twice over: in most cases Cohere says it has no access to inputs at all, because customers run its models in their own environments; and where it does use inputs, that rests on permission having been given. Cohere also states its models are not for direct consumer use, so an ordinary personal account is not really the product here.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Nothing to switch off
- Not stated
- 14 / 100
- Yes, stated
- Unknown
How to opt out of Cohere AI training
Plan by plan, from what Cohere's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts
Nothing to switch off: training here is off until an opt-in is given.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of Cohere's documents since 13 Aug 2026 and re-read them since, across 3 captures of 2 documents. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the documents, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Vendor response
We wrote to Cohere on 27 Aug 2026, quoting the clauses above and inviting a correction. Nothing has come back. That's published because a company declining to comment on its own policy is something a reader should know, and because the invitation should be on the record whether or not it's taken up. Any reply goes here, word for word.
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