Model Retirement Dates (On-Demand Mode)

The following tables list the release dates and the on-demand retirement dates for OCI Generative AI pretrained models.

Chat Models

Review the on-demand retirement dates for the following chat models.


Model	Release Date	On-Demand Mode Retirement Date	Suggested Replacement Options
`cohere.command-a-03-2025`	2025-05-14	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`cohere.command-r-08-2024`	2024-11-14	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	`cohere.command-a-03-2025`
`cohere.command-r-plus-08-2024`	2024-11-14	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	`cohere.command-a-03-2025`
`cohere.command-r-plus`	2024-06-18	`2025-01-16`	`cohere.command-r-plus-08-2024`
`cohere.command-r-16k`	2024-06-04	`2025-01-16`	`cohere.command-r-08-2024`
`cohere.command`	2024-02-07	`2024-10-02`	`cohere.command-r-08-2024` `cohere.command-r-plus-08-2024`
`cohere.command-light`	2024-02-07	`2024-10-02`	`cohere.command-r-08-2024`


Model	Release Date	On-Demand Mode Retirement Date	Suggested Replacement Options
`meta.llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8`	2025-05-14	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`meta.llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct`	2025-05-14	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`meta.llama-3.3-70b-instruct`	2025-02-07	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	`meta.llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8` `meta.llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct`
`meta.llama-3.2-90b-vision-instruct`	2024-11-14	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	`meta.llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8` `meta.llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct`
`meta.llama-3.1-405b-instruct`	2024-09-19	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	`meta.llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8` `meta.llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct`
`meta.llama-3.1-70b-instruct`	2024-09-19	`2025-07-10`	`meta.llama-3.3-70b-instruct` `meta.llama-3.1-405b-instruct`3
`meta.llama-3-70b-instruct`	2024-06-04	`2024-11-12`	`meta.llama-3.1-70b-instruct` `meta.llama-3.1-405b-instruct`
`meta.llama-2-70b-chat`	2024-01-22	`2024-10-02`	`meta.llama-3.1-70b-instruct` `meta.llama-3.1-405b-instruct`


Model	Release Date	On-Demand Mode Retirement Date	Suggested Replacement Options
`xai.grok-4`	2025-07-23	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`xai.grok-3`	2025-06-25	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`xai.grok-3-mini`	2025-06-25	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`xai.grok-3-fast`	2025-06-25	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`xai.grok-3-mini-fast`	2025-06-25	At least one month after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative

Review the on-demand retirement dates for the following embed models.


Model	Release Date	On-Demand Mode Retirement Date	Suggested Replacement Options
`cohere.embed-v4.0`	2025-07-03	At least 6 months after the release of the 1^st replacement model.	Tentative
`cohere.embed-multilingual-image-v3.0`	2025-05-14	`2026-01-22`	`cohere.embed-v4.0`
`cohere.embed-english-v3.0`	2024-02-07	`2026-01-22`	`cohere.embed-v4.0`
`cohere.embed-multilingual-v3.0`	2024-02-07	`2026-01-22`	`cohere.embed-v4.0`
`cohere.embed-english-light-v3.0`	2024-02-07	`2026-01-22`	`cohere.embed-v4.0`
`cohere.embed-multilingual-light-v3.0`	2024-02-07	`2026-01-22`	`cohere.embed-v4.0`

OCI Generative AI offers the Cohere Rerank 3.5 model only for the dedicated mode. This model isn't offered on-demand.