Errors

Cohere uses conventional HTTP response codes to indicate the success or failure of an API request. In general:

• Codes in the 2xx range indicate success.
• Codes in the 4xx range indicate an error that failed given the information provided (e.g., a required parameter was omitted, a charge failed, etc.).
• Codes in the 5xx range indicate an error with Cohere’s servers (these are rare).

With a non-2xx response code, the response will be an error object in the following shape:

{
    "message": string
}

Here are code examples for how error handling might look in our SDKs:

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 try:
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  response = co.generate(
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      model='invalid-model',
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      prompt='sample prompt')
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  except cohere.CohereError as e:
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      print(e.message)
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      print(e.http_status)
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      print(e.headers)