Using Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 on Cohere API

Implementation guide · Cohere Embed · Cohere

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Cohere API exposes Cohere Embed English Light v3.0 through model ID embed-english-light-v3.0. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Cohere API and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Cohere API SDK or REST API to call embed-english-light-v3.0 — see the documentation for request format.
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Code Examples

See Cohere API documentation for integration details.

Pricing on Cohere API

Capabilities

Multimodal

About Cohere Embed English Light v3.0

Smaller, faster English-only embedding model. Produces 384-dimensional embeddings with nearly equivalent capability to Embed English v3.0 but with reduced latency. Supports text and image inputs with multiple similarity metrics.

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Model Specs

Released2023-11-02
Context512
ArchitectureEncoder Only

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Provider

Cohere API

Cohere

Toronto, Ontario, Canada