Migrating off embed-english-light-v2.0 — retirement date and replacement
Source last checked: 2026-10-26.
Cohere is retiring embed-english-light-v2.0 on 2026-04-04. The provider has not named a replacement in its own documentation, so the migration target is your decision. This page is built from Cohere’s official deprecation notice and is rechecked weekly; the source link is below.
Past scheduled retirement. The published shutdown date has passed; this is a historical notice, not a live availability check.
When is embed-english-light-v2.0 being deprecated?
| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| embed-english-light-v2.0 | Cohere | 2026-04-04 | — not named |
Source: Cohere deprecation notice · announced 2026-04-04
Test before switching
- Check the replacement's supported API endpoints and request parameters.
- Test your prompts, structured output, streaming and tool calls on staging.
- Compare quality, latency, pricing and rate limits on your workload.
- Keep a rollback path while the old model remains available.
Download retirement dates for your models.
What should I migrate embed-english-light-v2.0 to?
Cohere has not published a successor for this model. Compare compatible alternatives using your workload, including output quality, latency, pricing and rate limits.
Measured latency of the Cohere API host
| Region | p50 TTFB | p95 | Uptime | Probes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asia (Tokyo) | 170 ms | 242 ms | 100% | 288 |
| Europe (Germany) | 138 ms | 160 ms | 100% | 288 |
| South America (São Paulo) | 167 ms | 197 ms | 100% | 288 |
| US (Central) | 63 ms | 113 ms | 100% | 288 |
Edge latency to the provider’s API host over the last 24 hours, measured from 4 regions. This measures the endpoint, not the model: swapping models on the same host is not an inference benchmark or a promise about the replacement model. Compare edge latency
What else retires on 2026-04-04?
| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| embed-english-v2.0 | Cohere | 2026-04-04 | — not named |
| embed-multilingual-v2.0 | Cohere | 2026-04-04 | — not named |
| c4ai-aya-expanse-8b | Cohere | 2026-04-04 | — not named |
| c4ai-aya-vision-8b | Cohere | 2026-04-04 | — not named |
These models share a shutdown date. Plan each affected integration before that deadline.
Other Cohere models being retired
| Model | Provider | Retires | Replacement |
|---|---|---|---|
| command-r | Cohere | 2025-09-15 | — not named |
| command-r-plus | Cohere | 2025-09-15 | — not named |
| command-light | Cohere | 2025-09-15 | — not named |
| command | Cohere | 2025-09-15 | — not named |
| rerank-english-v2.0 | Cohere | 2025-04-30 | rerank-v3.5 |
| rerank-multilingual-v2.0 | Cohere | 2025-04-30 | rerank-v3.5 |
| command-r-03-2024 | Cohere | 2025-09-15 | — not named |
| command-r-plus-04-2024 | Cohere | 2025-09-15 | — not named |
How is this calendar maintained?
Entries are pulled from provider documentation by an automated weekly job and every one carries a link to its source. Nothing is inferred from blog posts or social media. When a provider changes a date, the change appears here after the next run and is visible in the changelog. The full calendar across all providers is on the deprecations page, and this provider’s own list is at Cohere deprecations.