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cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 model retirement
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On October 16, 2026, Azure AI Foundry retired preview model cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026. Calls targeting this model fail since that date. The change affects any requests directed to model cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 version 1.
What to use instead of cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026
Move to coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-fp8 1, coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16 1, or coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-w4a4 1, as recommended by Microsoft.
In Azure AI Foundry's words
Model: Cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026; Version: 1; Lifecycle: Preview; Retirement date: 2026-10-16; Replacement: coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-fp8 1 , coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16 1 , coherelabs-command-a-plus-05-2026-w4a4 1
Facts
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cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026- Kind
- Model retirement
- Takes effect
- October 16, 2026
- Calls after that day
- Fail
- Source
- Deprecations page
- Last updated
- Verified
- , against Azure AI Foundry's own pages
Questions
When does cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 shut down?
Calls to the model cohere-command-a-plus-05-2026 on Azure AI Foundry stopped working on October 16, 2026.
What happens to calls after October 16, 2026?
They have failed since October 16, 2026.
How do I find the calls this hits in my code?
Okapi reads your repository, finds the calls this change hits and opens a pull request with the fix. It never commits to your branches: every change comes as a pull request you review.
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