Release Notes

Announcing Cohere's Command A Vision Model

We’re excited to announce the release of Command A Vision, Cohere’s first commercial model capable of understanding and interpreting visual data alongside text. This addition to our Command family brings enterprise-grade vision capabilities to your applications with the same familiar Command API interface.

Key Features

Multimodal Capabilities

• Text + Image Processing: Combine text prompts with image inputs
• Enterprise-Focused Use Cases: Optimized for business applications like document analysis, chart interpretation, and OCR
• Multiple Languages: Officially supports English, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Spanish

Technical Specifications

• Model Name: command-a-vision-07-2025
• Context Length: 128K tokens
• Maximum Output: 8K tokens
• Image Support: Up to 20 images per request (or 20MB total)
• API Endpoint: Chat API

What You Can Do

Command A Vision excels in enterprise use cases including:

• 📊 Chart & Graph Analysis: Extract insights from complex visualizations
• 📋 Table Understanding: Parse and interpret data tables within images
• 📄 Document OCR: Optical character recognition with natural language processing
• 🌐 Image Processing for Multiple Languages: Handle text in images across multiple languages
• 🔍 Scene Analysis: Identify and describe objects within images

💻 Getting Started

The API structure is identical to our existing Command models, making integration straightforward:

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import cohere
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co = cohere.Client("your-api-key")
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response = co.chat(
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    model="command-a-vision-07-2025",
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    messages=[
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        {
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            "role": "user",
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            "content": [
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                {
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                    "type": "text",
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                    "text": "Analyze this chart and extract the key data points",
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                },
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                {
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                    "type": "image_url",
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                    "image_url": {"url": "your-image-url"},
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                },
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            ],
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        }
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    ],
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)

There’s much more to be said about working with images, various limitations, and best practices, which you can find in our dedicated Command A Vision and Image Inputs documents.