Cohere Parse v5.0
Cohere Parse v5.0 is worth evaluating for vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating vision
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Cohere Parse
- Released
- 2026-08-27
- Context
- 8k
- Parameters
- 2.3B
- Specialization
- document-ai
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · Cohere API
About
Cohere Parse v5.0 (API id parse-v5.0) is a specialized document vision language model, not a chat LLM. Announced and generally available August 27, 2026. It converts page images into reading-order Markdown (tables as HTML) or typed blocks with bounding boxes for tables and images, via POST https://api.cohere.com/v2/parse. First-party docs: 2.3B parameters, ~4.6GB serving size, 8192 context, architecture described as proprietary north-micro-vision-instruct. Stable on nine languages (ar, en, fr, de, ja, ko, it, pt, es). Live API currently accepts document.type=image_url only (data URI or remote image URL); PDF/file URL inputs are not yet supported on the reference.
Top use-case fit
Vision
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere API | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(4)
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.
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
Benchmark peer barsfor Vision
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
parse-v5.0Cheapest of 1 route · Cohere API