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Azure OpenAI vs Cohere: which is more reliable? (2026)
Azure OpenAI is more reliable than Cohere, scoring 100.0 vs 91.6 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Azure OpenAI reported 0 incidents and Cohere reported 2, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.94% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Azure OpenAI | Cohere |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 100.0 | 91.6 |
| Rank (LLM API providers) | — | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 99.94% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 0 | 2 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | 2h 40m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Azure OpenAI and Cohere differ
- Azure OpenAI reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Cohere reported 2.
- Cohere had 1 partial or major outage, compared with 0 for Azure OpenAI.
90-day uptime
Azure OpenAI
Cohere
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Azure OpenAI incidents
No incidents reported by Azure OpenAI in the last 90 days.
Recent Cohere incidents
- Degraded performanceSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 22m
Affected: embeddings, rerank-english-v3.0, embed-v4.0, command-a-reasoning-08-2025, rerank-v4.0-fast, All Endpoints
- Partial outageAug 5, 2026 · resolved in 57m
Documentation Content Loading Issues
Affected: Docs
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- xAI API · #5 · 99.76% uptime