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Model infoModelsSnapshot: 15 Oct 2026

Cohere / Embed

Embed Multilingual 2

Historical text embedding model for semantic retrieval and classification. The Cohere API model stopped serving on April 4, 2026.

retiredClosed weightsEmbeddings
Official documentation (opens in a new tab)Reviewed 14 Oct 2026
11 of 22 specification fields collected
Input token limit256256 tokens
Vector dimensions768See specification notes below
Input billingNot collectedCohere Embed API (retired)
Output billingNot collectedNo inferred price

Specifications

Provider-documented facts. “Not collected” means we have not verified that field yet, not that the feature is unsupported.

Context / input limit
256 tokensSource for Context / input limit (opens in a new tab)

Archived model-specific limit; older representation releases had different slicing behavior, which is not inherited here.

Maximum output
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Reasoning
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Tool calling
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Structured output
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Streaming
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Batch processing
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Fine-tuning
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Context caching
Not collected
Knowledge cutoff
Not collected
Release date
2022-12-12Source for Release date (opens in a new tab)

Launch under the original multilingual-22-12 name. The 2023 rename is not a new weight release.

Parameters
Not collected
Architecture
Not collected
Languages
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  • Afrikaans
  • Amharic
  • Arabic
  • Assamese
  • Azerbaijani
  • Belarusian
  • Bulgarian
  • Bengali
  • Tibetan
  • Bosnian
  • Catalan
  • Cebuano
  • Corsican
  • Czech
  • Welsh
  • Danish
  • German
  • Greek
  • English
  • Esperanto
  • Spanish
  • Estonian
  • Basque
  • Persian
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Frisian
  • Irish
  • Scots_gaelic
  • Galician
  • Gujarati
  • Hausa
  • Hawaiian
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hmong
  • Croatian
  • Haitian_creole
  • Hungarian
  • Armenian
  • Indonesian
  • Igbo
  • Icelandic
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Javanese
  • Georgian
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Kannada
  • Korean
  • Kurdish
  • Kyrgyz
  • Latin
  • Luxembourgish
  • Laothian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Malagasy
  • Maori
  • Macedonian
  • Malayalam
  • Mongolian
  • Marathi
  • Malay
  • Maltese
  • Burmese
  • Nepali
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian
  • Nyanja
  • Oriya
  • Punjabi
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Sinhalese
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Samoan
  • Shona
  • Somali
  • Albanian
  • Serbian
  • Sesotho
  • Sundanese
  • Swedish
  • Swahili
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Tajik
  • Thai
  • Turkmen
  • Tagalog
  • Turkish
  • Tatar
  • Uighur
  • Ukrainian
  • Urdu
  • Uzbek
  • Vietnamese
  • Wolof
  • Xhosa
  • Yiddish
  • Yoruba
  • Chinese
  • Zulu
Source for Languages (opens in a new tab)

The archived Embed 2 catalog links this language list; quality varies across languages.

Equivalent API aliases
multilingual-22-12Source for Equivalent API aliases (opens in a new tab)

Previous Embed API name, not the Generate API model with the same size label.

Endpoint retirement date
2026-04-04Source for Endpoint retirement date (opens in a new tab)

Cohere API retirement; separate hosts can have different lifecycle dates.

Output formats
Floating-point embedding vectorsSource for Output formats (opens in a new tab)

Float is documented for all Embed versions. Embed 3 quantized/image formats are not inherited by Embed 2.

Access & pricing

Prices belong to an endpoint and billing tier. A provider listing does not guarantee access for every account or region.

Cohere Embed API (retired)

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
embed-multilingual-v2.0
Access
Original Cohere API model retired on 2026-04-04; requests with this model ID fail.
Regions
Not collected

Endpoint pricing has not been collected. Check the provider for applicable rates.

Data & enterprise terms

Retention, training use, regional processing and enterprise terms have not been summarized for this endpoint.

Cohere Embed API (historical alias)

Provider source (opens in a new tab)
API model ID
multilingual-22-12
Access
Alias documented as backward-compatible in April 2023. Not an active alternative to the retired canonical model.
Regions
Not collected

Endpoint pricing has not been collected. Check the provider for applicable rates.

Data & enterprise terms

Retention, training use, regional processing and enterprise terms have not been summarized for this endpoint.

Caching

Caching can reuse earlier input processing. Availability, lifetime and billing depend on the endpoint. A cache hit still generates a new response.

01 / INITIAL INPUTProcess & retain

The system processes eligible input and retains reusable state.

02 / LATER REQUESTCheck available state

Reuse depends on matching input, session state and the cache policy.

03 / CACHE HITReuse & generate

Reusing state can reduce repeated work. Any charges follow the billing rules below.

Cohere Embed API (retired)

embed-multilingual-v2.0
Not verified

No original-model prompt-cache contract verified. Newer Command/Embed capabilities are not inherited.

How it works
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Minimum reusable input
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Lifetime & refresh
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How to enable it
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Usage fields
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Billing rules
Not collected
Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Caching reviewed 14 Oct 2026

Cohere Embed API (historical alias)

multilingual-22-12
Not verified

No original-model prompt-cache contract verified. Newer Command/Embed capabilities are not inherited.

How it works
Not collected
Minimum reusable input
Not collected
Lifetime & refresh
Not collected
How to enable it
Not collected
Usage fields
Not collected
Billing rules
Not collected
Limits & data boundaries
Not collected

No verified cache rate for this endpoint. An empty rate is not a zero charge.

Caching reviewed 14 Oct 2026

What the measurements say

No benchmark observations have been added for this model. We do not turn a vendor description into a performance score.

Latency and throughput depend on the host, request size, reasoning settings and load. There is no measured speed or global usage figure in this record.

The record behind the model

Why it is included

Historical distribution inference: Cohere identifies this original model and its predecessor name as an API model in the official rename notice. The archived product documentation exposes managed inference, not an original weight release. Reviewed Cohere/CohereLabs repositories do not provide these original weights; this is not a blanket license assertion for newer public Command R/A families.

Classification evidence (opens in a new tab)

Lifecycle dates

Original multilingual model launched12 Dec 2022Source (opens in a new tab)
Canonical API name introduced26 Apr 2023Source (opens in a new tab)
Cohere API shutdown4 Apr 2026Source (opens in a new tab)

Sources reviewed