Retirement of Embed v2.0 and Aya Expanse / Vision 8B
Effective April 4, 2026, five models are no longer available on the Cohere API. Migrate to Embed v3/v4 and Command or Aya 32B alternatives.
Retirement notice
Section titled “Retirement notice”Effective April 4, 2026, the following models are no longer available. Requests using these model IDs will fail.
Retired models:
embed-english-v2.0embed-english-light-v2.0embed-multilingual-v2.0c4ai-aya-expanse-8bc4ai-aya-vision-8b
We recommend these replacements:
Embedding tasks
embed-english-v3.0embed-multilingual-v3.0embed-v4.0
Chat tasks
command-r7b-12-2024command-a-03-2025command-a-reasoning-08-2025
For the full announcement and lifecycle context, see the Deprecations page. For questions or assistance, contact support@cohere.com.