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Cohere Embed v4

Cohere's flagship embedding model (embed-v4.0). Multimodal (text + image) with up to 128K context; strong multilingual coverage and compressed (int8/binary) embeddings — useful for cost-sensitive RAG.

Modality
Embeddings
License
Proprietary (Proprietary)
Context window
128,000 tokens
Released
April 15, 2025
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Runs locally
No

Strengths

  • Multimodal (text + image) embeddings in one model (v4)
  • Compressed-embedding support (int8, binary) cuts storage cost
  • Strong multilingual retrieval performance; available via AWS Bedrock

Weaknesses

  • Closed weights
  • Cost and index size grow if you actually use the full 128K context

Try it

WhereTypeNotes
Cohere API hosted-api API key required
AWS Bedrock hosted-api Enterprise

Change log

  • — Updated from Embed v3 to embed-v4.0 (released 2025-04-15): multimodal, 128K context. The v3.0 models remain available but are no longer the flagship.
  • — Initial entry.