Is Cohere down?

Cohere

No — Cohere is working normally

Our sources see nothing wrong. If it still fails for you, the cause is most likely on your side — the tips further down cover the usual suspects.

Working since · Checked at

What our sources say

Official status page
Working
Our test requests, last hour
Not running for this service
Traffic through OpenRouter
0 of 3 models failing, 100% of requests succeeded in 30 min
Reports from visitors, last hour
0

Parts of the service

Official status page ↗Open Cohere ↗

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30 days agoyesterday

30 of 30 days with data had no problems.

Recent incidents

  1. Slow or glitchy

    Multiple Endpoint Disruptions

    Resolved after 4 hrs 22 mins

  2. Partly down

    Documentation Content Loading Issues

    Resolved after 57 mins

About this service

Cohere's API covers chat (Command), embeddings and rerank. An embeddings or rerank problem can quietly break search inside apps built on Cohere even while chat answers normally.

Other model APIs right now

Cohere: common questions

Is the Cohere API down, or is it my code?

Look at the HTTP status. 401 and 403 mean a key or permission problem, 400 and 422 a malformed request, 429 a rate or spending limit. Only 500, 502, 503, 504 and timeouts point at Cohere. If this page is green while you get them, send a minimal request with curl to rule out your client library or proxy.

How should my app handle Cohere outages?

Retry 429 and 5xx responses with exponential backoff and a little random jitter, cap the number of attempts, and set a timeout so stuck streams don't pile up. For anything users see, keep a fallback model from another vendor configured and switch to it automatically after a few failures in a row — the list above shows which ones are healthy right now.

Why do my requests fail when others say it works?

Limits apply per organisation and per model, so your account can be throttled while everyone else is fine. Newly released and very large models are also the first to be rate-limited at busy hours. Check the usage page of your account, try a smaller model and make sure you call the right base URL and region.

Responses are slow but they arrive. Does that count as an outage?

Watch the time to the first token rather than the total time. On our own test requests we flag a slowdown when the first token takes more than 3 seconds and three times longer than the day's median. Long prompts and long outputs are slow by nature and are not treated as a problem.

How do you know whether Cohere is down?

For Cohere we combine Cohere's official status page, read every minute, the share of successful requests to Cohere's models on OpenRouter and reports from people who press the button on this page. The most serious signal that is still fresh sets the verdict, and stale sources are ignored rather than trusted. The page refreshes by itself; the exact thresholds are on our “How we check” page.

How we check →