Embed 5 Fast is the lower-latency, cost-efficient tier of Cohere's Embed 5 family of multimodal embedding models (about 1B parameters).
Ways to buy 1
| Way to buy | Input | Output | In / out per 1M | Cached | Vs list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The lab's own API | $0.12 | Free | $0.12 / FreeList price | n/a | List price |
USD per 1M tokens. Regions are separate routes.
Through a gateway
Your own numbers100M input and 20M output tokens a month: $12.00 direct.
Kong AI Gateway$12.00+0%
Vercel AI Gateway$12.00+0%
OpenRouter$12.66+5.5%
Cloudflare AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Eden AINot offeredNot offered
HeliconeNot offeredNot offered
LiteLLMNot offeredNot offered
Martian GatewayNot offeredNot offered
Neon AI GatewayNot offeredNot offered
RequestyNot offeredNot offered
A dash: not on that gateway's own model list. No published token fee: Portkey, TrueFoundry AI Gateway.
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Cohere · 128K | $0.12 | Free | $0.12 / Free | $0.09 | 128K | Lab list price | · | Embed 5 Pro is the higher-accuracy tier of Cohere's Embed 5 family of multimodal embedding models (about 2.4B parameters). |
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About Embed 5 Fast
Takes text, image in and returns embeddings. First listed Nov 4, 2026. Blended price $0.09 per 1M tokens at 3 input to 1 output. Model id embed-5-fast.
Price history
List price since Nov 4, 2026, from daily reads of the OpenRouter catalog.
Questions
How much does Embed 5 Fast cost?
$0.12 per million input tokens and Free per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Embed 5 Fast?
128K tokens.