models/Cohere/Cohere Transcribe

Cohere Transcribe

audio-stt

Cohere Transcribe (Mar 2026) — multilingual ASR.

slug · cohere/cohere-transcribe-03-2026provider · Coherefamily · released · 2026-03-26

Quickstart

curl https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/audio/transcriptions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIGATEWAY_API_KEY" \
  -F model="cohere/cohere-transcribe-03-2026" \
  -F file="@audio.mp3"

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Speech-to-text transcription

Use cases

Meeting transcriptsCaptionsVoice agents

Pricing

Per minute$0.0060
You pay pass-through · 5% applied at credit top-up, not per-call.
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API schema

Call Cohere Transcribe from any OpenAI SDK

POST https://api.aigateway.sh/v1/audio/transcriptions·Content-Type: multipart/form-data·Auth: Bearer sk-aig-...

Request body

json
# multipart/form-data — use curl -F or SDK file upload
model="cohere/cohere-transcribe-03-2026"
file=@audio.mp3
response_format=json    # or "verbose_json", "text", "srt", "vtt"
language=en             # optional

Response

json
{
  "text": "Hello from AIgateway.",
  "language": "en",
  "duration": 1.82
}

Quickstart

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1", api_key="sk-aig-...")

with open("audio.mp3", "rb") as f:
    r = client.audio.transcriptions.create(model="cohere/cohere-transcribe-03-2026", file=f)
print(r.text)

Errors

401authentication_errorInvalid or missing API key
402insufficient_creditsWallet empty (PAYG only)
404not_foundUnknown model or endpoint
429rate_limit_errorOver per-minute limit — see Retry-After header
500server_errorUpstream provider failed (retryable)
503service_unavailableUpstream saturated (retryable)
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