Cohere Embed v3
Cohere's multilingual text embedding model for RAG and search
Cohere Embed v3 is a text embedding model that Cohere released in November 2023 for search, retrieval-augmented generation, and semantic search applications. It comes in English and multilingual variants, and the multilingual version was trained on over 100 languages and improved retrieval accuracy on the MIRACL benchmark by roughly 35% over the previous generation. The model lets a caller specify whether a text is a search query or a document, which adjusts the embedding space to improve retrieval accuracy. It’s available only through Cohere’s API, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens, and accepts inputs up to 512 tokens. Embed v3 became a standard choice for RAG pipelines alongside OpenAI’s text-embedding-3 and Voyage AI’s embedding models, before Cohere introduced the multimodal Embed v4 in 2025.