LLM Reference

Using Embed v4.0 on Vercel AI Gateway

Implementation guide · Embed · Cohere

Serverless

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call cohere/embed-v4.0 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.12/1M input. See full pricing.

Code Examples

Install
pip install openai
API key
AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY
Model ID
cohere/embed-v4.0

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
    base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="cohere/embed-v4.0",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

About Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK. API details: API key via Authorization: Bearer <AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY>. Key from Vercel dashboard. Free $5/month credit; paid tier is provider list price with zero markup. BYOK (bring-your-own-key) also supported with no markup or fee. Model IDs use {provider-owner}/{model-name} — e.g., anthropic/claude-opus-4.6, openai/gpt-5.

Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more. Pricing is pass-through at provider list rates with zero markup. Includes $5/month free tier; paid is pay-as-you-go. Features: automatic provider fallbacks, unified observability, streaming, tool use, vision, embeddings, image/video generation, BYOK mode. Integrates via @ai-sdk/gateway package or plain model ID strings in Vercel AI SDK.

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.12

Capabilities

Multimodal

About Embed v4.0

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.

Model Specs

Released2025-04-01
Context128k
Architecturetransformer

Provider

Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel