Cohere Embed 5 Fast
- Family
- Cohere Embed
- Released
- 2026-09-30
- Context
- 128K
- Specialization
- embedding
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryRestricted
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 3 routes · Cohere API
About
Cohere Embed 5 Fast is the faster, lighter tier of Cohere's Embed 5 embedding family, released September 30, 2026. It embeds text, images and mixed documents such as PDFs with a 128K-token context and output dimensions from 256 to 2,048, and Pro and Fast share one embedding space so a corpus indexed with Pro can be queried with Fast. The Cohere API serves it as embed-v5.0-fast at $0.08 per 1M tokens.
Providers(3)
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere API | $0.080 | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.080 | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.080 | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(6)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-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.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft 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.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-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.
Capabilities
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API versions
embed-v5.0-fastEmbed 5 FastCheapest of 3 routes · Cohere API