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Frontier large language models and embeddings for enterprise — Command R+, Embed v4, Rerank v4. Accessible via API, AWS Bedrock, OCI, and Azure.
Last 365 days · 8 changes
Current models (2)
Latest version of each family, grouped by capability. Older versions of each family collapse below.
| Model | Released | Context | Input $/Mtok | Output $/Mtok | Modalities |
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Command
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— | 4K | $1 | $2 | text |
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Command Nightly
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— | 4K | $1 | $2 | text |
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Deprecations (2)
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Retirement of Embed v2.0 and Aya Expanse / Vision 8B
⚠ Upgrade required- Replace retired embedding models with embed-english-v3.0, embed-multilingual-v3.0 or embed-v4.0.
- For chat tasks use command-r7b-12-2024, command-a-03-2025, or command-a-reasoning-08-2025 as recommended replacements.
Breaking changes- Retired embedding models: embed-english-v2.0, embed-english-light-v2.0, embed-multilingual-v2.0; requests using these IDs will fail.
- Retired AI models: c4ai-aya-expanse-8b and c4ai-aya-vision-8b; requests using these IDs will fail.
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Announcing Major Command Deprecations
⚠ Upgrade required- Migrate to recommended replacements: command-r-08-2024, command-r-plus-08-2024, or the strongest-performing model command-a-03-2025.
- Consult the migration guide for alternatives to deprecated models and endpoints.
Breaking changes- Removed models: command-r-03-2024 (alias command-r), command-r-plus-04-2024 (alias command-r-plus), command-light, and command-summarize.
- Retired fine‑tuning for models command-light, command, command-r, classify, and rerank; existing fine‑tuned models become inaccessible.
- Deprecated API endpoints: /v1/connectors, /v1/chat parameters connectors & search_queries_only, /v1/generate (legacy generative), /v1/summarize (legacy summarization), /v1/classify, Slack App integration, and the Coral Web UI (chat.cohere.com and coral.cohere.com).
Launches (5)
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Announcing Cohere's Command A+
Notable features- First Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 25B active parameters and 218B total parameters
- Supports vision inputs, reasoning, translation, and agentic tasks in a single model
- Expanded multilingual support covering 48 languages including all official EU languages
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Announcing the Cohere Transcribe model
Notable features- Launch of Cohere Transcribe model (cohere-transcribe-03-2026) for audio‑in, text‑out ASR
- Supports 14 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Korean
- Available through Cohere's Audio Transcriptions API with free experimentation tier and paid production Model Vault option
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Announcing Cohere's Command A Translate Model
Notable features- Supports 23 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, Persian
- 111 billion parameters for superior translation quality
- 16K token context length (8K input + 8K output) enabling longer text handling
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Announcing Cohere's Command A Reasoning Model
Notable features- 111 billion parameters with 256K context length
- Support for 23 languages (English and 22 others)
- Strongest tool use performance in the Command family
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Announcing Cohere's Command A Vision Model
Notable features- Multimodal support for text + up to 20 images (or 20 MB) per request
- Enterprise‑focused use cases: chart analysis, table parsing, OCR, scene understanding
- Official language support: English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Spanish
Other updates (1)
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Cohere's Rerank v4.0 Model is Here!
Notable features- Two model variants: rerank-v4.0-pro (quality) and rerank-v4.0-fast (low latency)
- Multilingual re‑ranking of English and non‑English documents
- Support for semi‑structured JSON documents