Cohere Embed v4.0

Released
2025-04-01
Last refreshed
2026-11-10
Status
Researched 4d ago
ProprietaryCommercial use: restrictedMultimodal
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Specifications
Released
2025-04-01
Context
128K
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
$0.120

Cheapest of 3 routes · Microsoft Foundry

Providers(3)
Microsoft FoundryVercel AI GatewayCohere API
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About

Latest multimodal embedding model supporting text, images, and mixed content (e.g., PDFs). Embed v4.0 offers variable embedding dimensions (256, 512, 1024, 1536 default) and supports multiple similarity metrics (Cosine, Dot Product, Euclidean Distance). Ideal for semantic search, classification, and clustering across multimodal data.

Providers(3)

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Microsoft Foundry$0.120-
ServerlessPartial
Vercel AI Gateway$0.120-
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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