Embed 3 English Light is Cohere's embedding model with a 1K context window, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.100 / 1M input. A smaller, faster variant of Cohere's third-generation English embedding model that retains most of the full model's capability.
Specifications
Canonical IDcohere-embed-3-english-light
TypeEmbedding
StatusActive
CreatorCohereCohere
Providers
Context Window1K tokens
Input ModalitiesImageText
Output ModalitiesEmbedding
Embedding Dimensions384

Capabilities

Input2/5
Text
Image
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Cohere logo
Cohere
embed-english-light-v3.0
$0.100
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
oci/cohere.embed-english-light-v3.0
$0.100

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Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Text Embedding 52K$0.025Available
Embed 4128K$0.120$0.470Available
Embed 4 Img$0.470Available
Embed 4 Txt$0.120Available
Text Embedding 42K$0.100Deprecated
Voyage 432K$0.060Available
Voyage 4 Large32K$0.120Available
Voyage 4 Lite32K$0.020Available
Voyage 3.532K$0.060Available
Voyage 3.5 Lite32K$0.020Available
Embed 3 English Light1K$0.100Current

Model IDs