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 API keys (from Lava) and BYOK mode.
Quick Start
const response = await fetch('https://api.lavapayments.com/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!" }],
}),
});
Chat Completions
Target URL: https://api.cohere.ai/compatibility/v1/chat/completions
| |
|---|
| Content Type | application/json |
| Streaming | Yes (set stream: true in request body) |
| Model | Input / 1M tokens | Output / 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 | $0.04 | $0.15 |
| command-r7b-arabic-02-2025 | $0.04 | $0.15 |
Next Steps
