Retirement of Embed v2.0 and Aya Expanse / Vision 8B
Retirement of Embed v2.0 and Aya Expanse / Vision 8B
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.
