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Cohere offers 10 models through Lava’s AI Gateway, supporting Chat Completions. Authentication uses Authorization: Bearer. See the Cohere API docs for provider-specific parameters.
Supports both managed (Lava’s API keys) and unmanaged (bring your own credentials) mode.

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Quick Start

const response = await fetch('https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cohere.ai%2Fcompatibility%2Fv1%2Fchat%2Fcompletions', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    Authorization: `Bearer ${forwardToken}`,
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model: 'command-a-03-2025',
    messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
  }),
});

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Chat Completions

Target URL: https://api.cohere.ai/compatibility/v1/chat/completions
Content Typeapplication/json
StreamingYes (set stream: true in request body)
ModelInput / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokens
command-a-03-2025$2.50$10.00
command-r-plus-08-2024$2.50$10.00
command-nightly$1.00$2.00
c4ai-aya-expanse-32b$0.50$1.50
c4ai-aya-expanse-8b$0.50$1.50
c4ai-aya-vision-32b$0.50$1.50
c4ai-aya-vision-8b$0.50$1.50
command-r-08-2024$0.30$1.20
command-r7b-12-2024$0.0375$0.15
command-r7b-arabic-02-2025$0.0375$0.15

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