Cohere: Embed 5 Fast

Overview

Lighter, lower-latency version of Embed 5 sharing the same embedding space as Pro.

Provider

Cohere

Modality

Embeddings

Input

text, image

Output

embeddings

Weights

Closed

Distillable

NoLicence or terms, checked October 8, 2026.

Tags

embeddings, retrieval, low-cost

Docs

Provider documentation

Data policy

Prompts go to

Cohere SaaS Platform

Retention

Logged prompts and generations deleted after 30 days unless flagged or legally required, you can opt out of training use in dashboard Data Controls, ZDR for approved enterprise customers

Zero data retention

Available

Region

Not stated

Policy

Cohere data policy

Summarised from the provider's published terms. The provider's own policy is what applies.

Where you can run it

How Embed 5 Fast can be deployed, bought and reached through Safeguard.

Deployment

Public cloudPrivate cloud

Procurement

Not published yet

Inference regions

Not published yet

Closed weights stay with the provider, so this model runs in the provider's cloud, never on-prem or air-gapped.

Pricing

Notes

Embeddings: input tokens only.

Source

Cohere pricing , last verified October 8, 2026

No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

API

OpenAI-compatible. Your API key and access to this model are set up for your workspace when you choose Use with Safeguard.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.safeguard.sh/gpt/v1",
    api_key="SAFEGUARD_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="cohere/embed-v5.0-fast",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Base URL https://api.safeguard.sh/gpt/v1, model cohere/embed-v5.0-fast.