ChatCohere

This doc will help you get started with Cohere chat models. For detailed documentation of all ChatCohere features and configurations head to the API reference.

For an overview of all Cohere models head to the Cohere docs.

Overview

Integration details

Class	Package	Local	Serializable	JS support	Package downloads	Package latest
ChatCohere	langchain-cohere	❌	beta	✅

Model features

Tool calling	Structured output	JSON mode	Image input	Audio input	Video input	Token-level streaming	Native async	Token usage	Logprobs
✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌

Setup

To access Cohere models you'll need to create a Cohere account, get an API key, and install the langchain-cohere integration package.

Credentials

Head to https://dashboard.cohere.com/welcome/login to sign up to Cohere and generate an API key. Once you've done this set the COHERE_API_KEY environment variable:

import getpass
import os

os.environ["COHERE_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your Cohere API key: ")

If you want to get automated tracing of your model calls you can also set your LangSmith API key by uncommenting below:

# os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your LangSmith API key: ")
# os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"

Installation

The LangChain Cohere integration lives in the langchain-cohere package:

%pip install -qU langchain-cohere

Instantiation

Now we can instantiate our model object and generate chat completions:

from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere

llm = ChatCohere(
    model="command-r-plus",
    temperature=0,
    max_tokens=None,
    timeout=None,
    max_retries=2,
    # other params...
)

API Reference:ChatCohere

Invocation

messages = [
    (
        "system",
        "You are a helpful assistant that translates English to French. Translate the user sentence.",
    ),
    ("human", "I love programming."),
]
ai_msg = llm.invoke(messages)
ai_msg

AIMessage(content="J'adore programmer.", additional_kwargs={'documents': None, 'citations': None, 'search_results': None, 'search_queries': None, 'is_search_required': None, 'generation_id': 'd84f80f3-4611-46e6-aed0-9d8665a20a11', 'token_count': {'input_tokens': 89, 'output_tokens': 5}}, response_metadata={'documents': None, 'citations': None, 'search_results': None, 'search_queries': None, 'is_search_required': None, 'generation_id': 'd84f80f3-4611-46e6-aed0-9d8665a20a11', 'token_count': {'input_tokens': 89, 'output_tokens': 5}}, id='run-514ab516-ed7e-48ac-b132-2598fb80ebef-0')

print(ai_msg.content)

J'adore programmer.

Chaining

We can chain our model with a prompt template like so:

from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate

prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages(
    [
        (
            "system",
            "You are a helpful assistant that translates {input_language} to {output_language}.",
        ),
        ("human", "{input}"),
    ]
)

chain = prompt | llm
chain.invoke(
    {
        "input_language": "English",
        "output_language": "German",
        "input": "I love programming.",
    }
)

API Reference:ChatPromptTemplate

AIMessage(content='Ich liebe Programmierung.', additional_kwargs={'documents': None, 'citations': None, 'search_results': None, 'search_queries': None, 'is_search_required': None, 'generation_id': '053bebde-4e1d-4d06-8ee6-3446e7afa25e', 'token_count': {'input_tokens': 84, 'output_tokens': 6}}, response_metadata={'documents': None, 'citations': None, 'search_results': None, 'search_queries': None, 'is_search_required': None, 'generation_id': '053bebde-4e1d-4d06-8ee6-3446e7afa25e', 'token_count': {'input_tokens': 84, 'output_tokens': 6}}, id='run-53700708-b7fb-417b-af36-1a6fcde38e7d-0')

API reference

For detailed documentation of all ChatCohere features and configurations head to the API reference: https://api.python.langchain.com/en/latest/chat_models/langchain_cohere.chat_models.ChatCohere.html