Embed 3 English Light is Cohere's embedding model with a 512 context window, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.1 / 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 Window512 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

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Cohere logo
Cohere
embed-english-light-v3.0
$0.1
Oracle Cloud (OCI) logo
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
oci/cohere.embed-english-light-v3.0
$0.1

Cost Calculator

US Dollar ($)
Preset:

Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
GigaChat Embeddings 9.3B—4K——Available
Embed 5 Fast128K$0.080—Deprecating
Embed 5 Pro128K$0.120—Deprecating
Text Embedding 52K$0.025—Deprecating
Embed 5 Fast Image——$0.400—Available
Embed 5 Fast Text——$0.080—Available
Embed 5 Pro Image——$0.500—Available
Embed 5 Pro Text——$0.120—Available
Voyage 432K$0.060—Available
Voyage 4 Large32K$0.120—Available
Embed 3 English Light—512$0.100—Current

Model IDs

cohere-embed-3-english-light
embed-english-light-v3.0
oci/cohere.embed-english-light-v3.0