Is Cohere Aya Vision 8B deprecated?
No longer available. Cohere shut Aya Vision 8B down on 2026-04-04 — calls to it fail.
What kind of model is this?
Tags describe what Aya Vision 8B takes in, what it is built for and how you can get it. Modality, access and language tags follow Cohere's own documentation; tier and use-case tags are our reading of the line-up.
- Modality
- Use case
- Tier
- Access
- Languages
Specifications
- Input price
- unknown
- Output price
- unknown
- Price band
- unknown
- Context window
- 16K tokens
- Max output
- unknown
- Input
- Text, image
- Output
- Text
- Knowledge cutoff
- unknown
- Tool use
- unknown
- Structured output
- unknown
- Weights licence
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 (non-commercial)
- Model maker
- Cohere
“unknown” means the figure has not been published, or we have not verified it yet — never that the answer is no. “not published” under the weights licence means this model is not offered with downloadable weights. The price band is ours: it bands the blended price (three parts input to one part output) as budget (≤ $0.50), standard (≤ $3), premium (≤ $12) or flagship.
Lifecycle
- Released unknown
- Deprecated not announced Cohere has not published the date this happened
- Retired
What is it good for?
No editorial profile for this model yet. The specifications above come from Cohere's own documentation and the suggestions below are derived from the data — shared tags, tier and price band — not written by hand.
What to use instead of Aya Vision 8B
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Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct Derived
Alternative from Cloudflare Workers AI, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.10 in · $0.30 out / M tokens 256K context
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Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct Derived
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Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct Derived
Alternative from Cloudflare Workers AI, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.351 in · $0.555 out / M tokens 128K context
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GLM 5.3 Flash Derived
Alternative from Cloudflare Workers AI, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.15 in · $0.50 out / M tokens 1M context
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MiniMax M3 Derived
Alternative from DeepInfra, same tier (small), also open weights; shares chat.
$0.28 in · $1.10 out / M tokens 524.3K context
Derived suggestions are ranked from the data — shared tags, the same tier and a comparable price band — not from benchmark scores. Check the capability fit yourself: we track lifecycle, price and specifications.
Sources
- docs.cohere.com https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models
- docs.cohere.com https://docs.cohere.com/docs/deprecations
Verified against the source on . Dataset snapshot . Providers can change a date without notice — the link above is always the final word.
Common questions
- Is Aya Vision 8B deprecated?
- No longer available. Cohere shut Aya Vision 8B down on 2026-04-04 — calls to it fail.
- When does Aya Vision 8B shut down?
- Cohere has announced 2026-04-04 as the shutdown date for Aya Vision 8B.
- What does Aya Vision 8B cost?
- No public price is listed for Aya Vision 8B in our dataset.
- What can I use instead of Aya Vision 8B?
- Active alternatives include Cloudflare Workers AI Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct, Cloudflare Workers AI Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct, Cloudflare Workers AI Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct.