Cohere vs Listen: who uses which
Customers, public proof and the companies that use both.
On usedby, 23 companies use Cohere and 40 use Listen. 1 company uses both, including McKinsey & Company. Cohere leads among the IT Services & System Integration companies on usedby that use either tool.Latest check Oct 2, 2026: 49 of 63 public lines checked. Counts include every proof level, job-post signals included. Companies named on both have a confirmed or observed line on each side.
Who uses Cohere, Listen, or both
Every company with a public proof for at least one of the two tools.
22
use only Cohere
1
company uses both
39
use only Listen
22 companies use only Cohere, 39 use only Listen and 1 uses both, out of the 62 companies on usedby that use at least one of them.
Where it lands
Newest customers
No new customer since tracking started on October 2, 2026.
Where it lands
Newest customers
We have not started tracking changes for Listen yet.
Who uses both
Companies with a confirmed or observed line on both tools.
| Company |
|---|
 McKinsey & Company |
Side by side
Facts from our data and from each vendor's public pages. Each line says where it comes from.
Cohere
ListenWhat customers report
Results as the vendor or the customer published them, with the source and the date.
Cohere
Listen
the team shipped StudyArena in roughly half the time it took to build A1Zap
A1Base
Vendor case study, listenlabs.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026
Think about it as 100 studies for the price, at least in terms of time, of five or six.
Anthropic
Vendor case study, listenlabs.ai, captured Oct 2, 2026
Questions about Cohere and Listen
Which is used more, Cohere or Listen?
Listen has more customers on usedby: 40 against 23 for Cohere.
Do companies use both Cohere and Listen?
Yes. 1 company uses both on usedby, including McKinsey & Company.
Who uses Cohere?
23 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Cohere.
Who uses Listen?
40 companies on usedby, each with the public page that shows it. See who uses Listen.
How does usedby count customers?
A company counts when a public page shows it: a vendor's customer page, a case study, a press release or a job post, most saved with a dated capture. Every line is a customer, at one of three proof levels: confirmed, observed or signal (a job post, the weakest). A company is named as using both tools when its lines on both are confirmed or observed.