Cohere Embed Multilingual Light v3.0

Released
2023-11-02
Last refreshed
2026-10-07
Status
Researched 136d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal
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Specifications
Released
2023-11-02
Context
512
Architecture
Encoder Only
Specialization
embedding
Openness
Proprietary
License
ProprietaryRestricted
Weights
Not released
Code
Unknown
Created by
Cohere

Empowering developers with advanced language AI.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded 2022
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider pricing is available yet.

Providers(1)
Cohere API
Links
Website

About

Smaller, faster multilingual embedding model. Produces 384-dimensional embeddings with performance comparable to Embed Multilingual v3.0 but with reduced latency. Supports text and image inputs across multiple languages.

Providers(1)

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ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Cohere API--
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Available via routers & gateways(4)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSCohere API

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeCohere API

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionCohere API

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionCohere API

Capabilities

Multimodal

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Benchmark scores(1)

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BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
MTEB English v2
62.75MTEB(eng, v2)Observed 2026-10-17
Harness: mteb 2.26.6 leaderboard aggregation, Mean (Task) over 41 tasks
Evaluator: MTEB (embeddings-benchmark/results)
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: MTEB(eng, v2) Mean (Task) 62.75 over 41 tasks; Mean (TaskType) 58.49. Computed with the leaderboard's own code (mteb 2.26.6 Benchmark summary table) from embeddings-benchmark/results @ 4bb41dd (2026-10-17). Source: MTEB (embeddings-benchmark/results, CC0). Retrieved 2026-10-17. Results folder includes an 'external' (copied/reported) revision alongside maintainer-run results.
Source

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