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Cohere vs Groq: which is more reliable? (2026)
Cohere and Groq are effectively tied on reliability (91.6 vs 91.4). Over the last 90 days Cohere reported 2 incidents and Groq reported 3, with effective uptime of 99.94% and 99.94% respectively. Groq resolves incidents faster on average (2h 16m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Cohere | Groq |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 91.6 | 91.4 |
| Rank (LLM API providers) | #2 | #3 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.94% | 99.94% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 2 | 3 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | 2h 40m | 2h 16m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Cohere and Groq differ
- Groq reported 50% more incidents than Cohere over the last 90 days (3 vs 2).
- Groq fixes problems faster: 2h 16m on average, against 2h 40m for Cohere.
- Cohere's longest outage on record lasted 1h 18m (Feb 13, 2026); Groq's lasted 3h 33m (Nov 18, 2025).
90-day uptime
Cohere
Groq
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Cohere incidents
- Degraded performanceSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 22m
Affected: rerank-v4.0-fast, All Endpoints, embeddings, rerank-english-v3.0, embed-v4.0, command-a-reasoning-08-2025
- Partial outageAug 5, 2026 · resolved in 57m
Documentation Content Loading Issues
Affected: Docs
Recent Groq incidents
- MaintenanceOct 16, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Website
- Partial outageOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 18m
Model Performance or Availability Issue
Affected: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
- Degraded performanceOct 12, 2026 · resolved in 23m
GroqCloud Console Errors Affecting Multiple Regions
Affected: Website, API
- Degraded performanceOct 10, 2026 · resolved in 6h 5m
Model Performance or Availability Issue - minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
Affected: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
- MaintenanceOct 8, 2026 · ongoing
Planned Maintenance: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
Affected: minimaxai/minimax-m2.7
Other LLM API providers to consider
- Perplexity API · #1 · 99.94% uptime
- Cerebras Inference · #4 · 99.88% uptime
- xAI API · #5 · 99.76% uptime
- DeepSeek API · #6 · 100% uptime