Is Cohere Down?
Command R+, Command R, Embed, Rerank, Coral, and Cohere API services.
Official status data last reflected here:
[ STATUS AT A GLANCE ]
System Components
Current status of individual Cohere services
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About Cohere
What Cohere does, where the data on this page comes from, and recent reliability
[ ABOUT COHERE ]
About Cohere
Cohere provides Command models, Embed, Rerank, and Coral. Cohere status is especially important for production retrieval and ranking systems where latency and model availability directly shape search relevance and workflow quality.
This page pulls data from Cohere's official status page to show current service health, any active incidents, and a history of recent issues, all in one view.
[ DATA SOURCES ]
Full incident history available
Cohere publishes detailed component status, a full incident archive, and scheduled maintenance data through their official status page.
- Data pulled from Cohere's official status page (status.cohere.com)
- Refreshed every 60 seconds
- Covers Command models, Embed, Rerank, and Coral
- Includes full incident archive and scheduled maintenance history
[ RELIABILITY ]
Recent reliability
- 4 incidents reported over the last 90 days.
- Last reported incident was 17 days ago.
- All 24 monitored components are currently operational.
[ COMMON USE CASES ]
How teams use Cohere
Cohere status is especially important for production retrieval and ranking systems where latency and model availability directly shape search relevance and workflow quality.
Incidents & Maintenance
Active incidents, scheduled maintenance, and incident history for Cohere
Past Incidents
Docs Platform Degraded Performance
Apr 20, 2026 · Resolved Apr 20, 2026
Multiple Model Disruptions
Apr 13, 2026 · Resolved Apr 13, 2026
Scheduled DB Maintenance: Model authentication and API access momentarily affected
Apr 11, 2026 · Resolved Apr 11, 2026
Some chat models are unresponsive or timing out
Feb 13, 2026 · Resolved Feb 13, 2026
Chat models return 503 service error when /v1/chat requests omit message and chat_history while providing tool_results
Oct 18, 2025 · Resolved Oct 18, 2025
logprobs param degeraded for `command-a-03-2025` and `command-a-reasoning-08-2025`
Oct 1, 2025 · Resolved Oct 1, 2025
Command-a-vision-07-2025 degraded performance
Aug 7, 2025 · Resolved Aug 7, 2025
Model serving infrastructure outage
Jul 25, 2025 · Resolved Jul 25, 2025
GCP Outage
Jun 12, 2025 · Resolved Jun 12, 2025
Degraded service affecting embed-v4.0
May 21, 2025 · Resolved May 21, 2025
Degraded service affecting embedding models
May 8, 2025 · Resolved May 13, 2025
Degraded Performance - Increased Latency - Command-a-03-2025/command-r-plus-08-2024
Apr 3, 2025 · Resolved Apr 4, 2025
Degraded Performance: command-a-03-2025 - Increased Latency
Apr 2, 2025 · Resolved Apr 3, 2025
High latency
Mar 29, 2025 · Resolved Mar 29, 2025
Increased Latency
Mar 28, 2025 · Resolved Mar 28, 2025
Increased Latency
Mar 28, 2025 · Resolved Mar 28, 2025
Elevated Latency
Mar 27, 2025 · Resolved Mar 27, 2025
CommandR / CommandR plus: Elevated Error Rate
Mar 24, 2025 · Resolved Mar 24, 2025
Rerank Endpoint: Degraded Service
Mar 20, 2025 · Resolved Mar 20, 2025
Chat Endpoint: Encountering Increased Error rate
Mar 19, 2025 · Resolved Mar 19, 2025
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Cohere down right now?
Check the status indicator at the top of this page. It pulls directly from Cohere's official status page. If Cohere is experiencing any issues, you'll see it reflected here. This real-time monitoring helps teams quickly identify whether performance problems are caused by Cohere infrastructure or their own systems.
What does this Cohere status page track?
This page tracks Command models, Embed, Rerank, and Coral using data from Cohere's official status page. You can see current component health, active incidents, and a history of past issues. This visibility is crucial for teams building resilient AI applications that need to route around provider outages.
How often is Cohere status updated here?
We check Cohere's status page every 60 seconds to ensure you get near real-time status updates. How quickly issues show up here depends on how fast Cohere updates their own official status. For production systems that need instant failover, Bifrost can automatically detect and route around degraded providers.
Why monitor Cohere status?
Cohere status is especially important for production retrieval and ranking systems where latency and model availability directly shape search relevance and workflow quality. Real-time status monitoring enables proactive incident response and helps teams decide when to route traffic to alternative providers for maximum uptime.
What should I do when Cohere goes down?
When Cohere experiences an outage, the best practice is automatic failover to alternative AI providers. Bifrost is an open-source AI gateway that automatically detects Cohere degradation and routes LLM traffic to healthy alternatives like OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, keeping your application running with zero manual intervention. This intelligent routing ensures your users never experience downtime from a single provider's issues.
How can I prevent Cohere downtime from affecting my application?
Production AI applications should never depend on a single provider. Bifrost AI Gateway provides automatic multi-provider failover, intelligent load balancing, and health-based routing. When Cohere degrades, Bifrost instantly routes requests to operational alternatives while maintaining API compatibility. This architecture approach is used by teams running mission-critical AI features.
What are common causes of Cohere outages and degraded performance?
Common causes of Cohere issues include infrastructure scaling challenges, regional cloud provider problems, API gateway overload, and deployment errors. Monitor this page to stay informed, and consider implementing automatic failover with Bifrost to maintain uptime during Cohere incidents.
Alternative Providers for Automatic Failover
When Cohere experiences issues, Bifrost AI Gateway can automatically route your LLM traffic to these alternatives
💡 Build resilient AI apps: Configure Bifrost to automatically detect Cohere outages and route requests to healthy alternatives. This multi-provider approach ensures your application maintains uptime even when individual providers experience issues. Learn more about Bifrost AI Gateway