Lifecycle
Cohere Product Lifecycle
Release dates, version history and end-of-support dates for 12 Cohere products and 28 versions.
Releases and Lifecycle
Upcoming End of SupportRelease dates, version history and support and end-of-life dates as published by Cohere. Dates within the next 12 months are highlighted; past dates are dimmed. Retrieved 2026-10-14.
- Cohere model lifecycle stages. Cohere describes models as Active, Legacy, Deprecated (no longer available to new customers but available to existing users until retirement) or Shutdown (requests fail), and states that it regularly retires old models with customers notified by email and in documentation. [1]
Cohere API 1 version
| Version | Released | End of sale | End of life | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2 APIMajor version upgrade of the Chat, Classify, Embed and Rerank APIs, announced in the 2024-09-26 release notes. | – | – | [2] |
Cohere Aya 3 versions
| Version | Released | End of sale | End of life | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aya-visionAya Vision announced in the 2025-03-04 release notes. | – | – | [2][3] | |
| c4ai-aya-vision-8bCohere model lifecycle stagesRetired 2026-04-04; requests to this model ID fail. | – | – | [1][2] | |
| c4ai-aya-expanse-8bCohere model lifecycle stagesRetired 2026-04-04; requests to this model ID fail. | – | – | [1][2] |
Cohere Command 2 versions
| Version | Released | End of sale | End of life | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| command-lightCohere model lifecycle stagesDeprecated 2025-09-15: no longer available to new customers; the vendor does not publish a shutdown date. | – | – | [1][3] | |
| commandCohere model lifecycle stagesIntroduced as a beta model in the 2022-11-08 release notes. Deprecated 2025-09-15: no longer available to new customers; the vendor does not publish a shutdown date. | – | [1][2][3] |
Cohere Command A 5 versions
Cohere Command R 5 versions
| Version | Released | End of sale | End of life | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| command-r7b-12-2024 | – | – | [2][3] | |
| command-r-plus-08-2024Update of Command R+ announced in the 2024-08-30 release notes. | – | – | [2][3] | |
| command-r-08-2024Update of Command R announced in the 2024-08-30 release notes. | – | – | [2][3] | |
| command-r-plus-04-2024Cohere model lifecycle stagesAlso available as the alias command-r-plus. Deprecated 2025-09-15: no longer available to new customers; the vendor does not publish a shutdown date. | – | – | [1][3] | |
| command-r-03-2024Cohere model lifecycle stagesAlso available as the alias command-r. Deprecated 2025-09-15: no longer available to new customers; the vendor does not publish a shutdown date. Release date is the date of the vendor release-notes entry. Models fine-tuned on it were sunset on 2025-03-08. | – | [1][2][3] |
Cohere Embed 3 versions
Cohere North 2 versions
Cohere Parse 1 version
| Version | Released | End of sale | End of life | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| parse-v5.0 | – | – | [2] |
Cohere Rerank 4 versions
| Version | Released | End of sale | End of life | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rerank-v4.0 (pro, fast) | – | – | [2][3] | |
| rerank-v3.5 | – | – | [2][3] | |
| rerank-v3.0 (english, multilingual)Rerank 3 announced in the 2024-04-09 release notes. | – | – | [2][3] | |
| rerank-v2.0 (english, multilingual)Cohere model lifecycle stagesDeprecation announced 2024-12-02; shutdown date as listed on the Deprecations page. | – | – | [1] |
Cohere Transcribe 2 versions
- No published lifecycle 2
- Cohere Compass, Cohere Model Vault
Sources 3
- Deprecations retrieved 2026-10-14
- Release Notes retrieved 2026-10-14
- An Overview of Cohere's Models retrieved 2026-10-14