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Aya Vision 8B

Aya Vision 8B is an AI model made by Cohere. Cohere released it on 4 March 2025. It is retired. Cohere retired it on 4 April 2026.

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Aya Vision 8B is an AI model made by Cohere. Cohere released it on 4 March 2025. It is retired. Cohere retired it on 4 April 2026. It takes text, image and returns text. Its context window is 16,000 tokens. Its longest answer is 4,000 tokens. Its weights are open. Its licence is CC-BY-NC.

Released
4 March 2025 — docs.cohere.com, read 16 October 2026
Status
Retired — docs.cohere.com, read 16 October 2026
Retired
4 April 2026 — docs.cohere.com, read 16 October 2026
Takes
Text, Image — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Returns
Text — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Open weights
Yes — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Licence
CC-BY-NC — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Context window
16,000 tokens — docs.cohere.com, read 16 October 2026
Longest answer
4,000 tokens — docs.cohere.com, read 16 October 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Not confirmed: I found no knowledge-cutoff date stated on Cohere's official model documentation or Aya Vision 8B model card.
API price, input
Not confirmed: I found no standard API input-token price for Aya Vision 8B on Cohere's official pages; Cohere states that the model is retired and its model ID is no longer available.
API price, output
Not confirmed: I found no standard API output-token price for Aya Vision 8B on Cohere's official pages; Cohere states that the model is retired and its model ID is no longer available.
Where
Not confirmed: two readings disagree: weights and api, weights
Parameters
8,000,000,000 — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026
Model card
https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/aya-vision-8b — huggingface.co, read 16 October 2026

Questions

When was Aya Vision 8B released?

Cohere released Aya Vision 8B on 4 March 2025.

Is Aya Vision 8B still available?

No: Cohere retired Aya Vision 8B on 4 April 2026.

What is the context window of Aya Vision 8B?

The context window of Aya Vision 8B is 16,000 tokens, as Cohere prints it.

Are the weights of Aya Vision 8B open?

Yes: Cohere publishes the weights of Aya Vision 8B for download.

What is the licence of Aya Vision 8B?

The licence of Aya Vision 8B is CC-BY-NC, as Cohere names it.

What does Aya Vision 8B take and return?

Aya Vision 8B takes text, image and returns text.

How many parameters does Aya Vision 8B have?

Aya Vision 8B has 8,000,000,000 parameters, as Cohere publishes it.

More from Cohere

Sources

  1. An Overview of Cohere's Models (read 16 October 2026)
  2. README.md · CohereLabs/aya-vision-8b at main (read 16 October 2026)
  3. Our Groundbreaking Multimodal Model, Aya Vision, is Here! (read 16 October 2026)
  4. Retirement of Embed v2.0 and Aya Expanse / Vision 8B (read 16 October 2026)

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