Cohere Embed Multilingual 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
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
$0.100

Cheapest of 2 routes · Microsoft Foundry

Providers(2)
Microsoft FoundryCohere API
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About

Multilingual embedding model supporting text and image inputs across multiple languages. Produces 1024-dimensional embeddings optimized for semantic search, classification, and clustering in non-English languages. Supports multiple similarity metrics.

Providers(2)

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Microsoft Foundry$0.100-
ServerlessPartial
Cohere API--
ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(6)

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 OSSMicrosoft FoundryCohere 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.

SubscriptionMicrosoft FoundryCohere API

Azure AI Foundry Model Router

Router

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.

Passthrough + feeMicrosoft Foundry

Helicone

Gateway

Observability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache-2.0 open-source platform with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.

SubscriptionMicrosoft Foundry

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.

SubscriptionMicrosoft FoundryCohere API

Capabilities

Multimodal

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Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
MTEB English v2
66.01MTEB(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) 66.01 over 41 tasks; Mean (TaskType) 61.43. 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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