Major outageCohereApril 21, 2026

Docs Platform Degraded Performance

A record of the Cohere incident on April 21, 2026 (Japan time): start time, duration and severity, plus current status, what to do, and alternatives.

Started
Apr 21, 2026, 07:16 AM
Resolved
Apr 21, 2026, 07:28 AM
Duration
13m
Impact
Major outage

Current status

Cohere is operating normally now. This incident has been resolved.

See current Cohere status

What you can do during an outage

Source: Cohere's official status page.

Other Cohere incidents

  1. /audio/transcriptions endpoint returns error for audio files with unexpected sampling rateJune 1, 2026
  2. Multiple Model DisruptionsApril 14, 2026
  3. Scheduled DB Maintenance: Model authentication and API access momentarily affectedApril 12, 2026
  4. Some chat models are unresponsive or timing outFebruary 13, 2026
  5. Chat models return 503 service error when /v1/chat requests omit message and chat_history while providing tool_resultsOctober 19, 2025