Today, we’re announcing the availability of Cohere Rerank v5 in Microsoft Foundry, helping developers improve the relevance and efficiency of enterprise search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). With Fast and Pro versions and a new Context Focus capability, Rerank 5 helps applications find useful information and pass more focused context to language models.
Surface the information that matters
The quality of an AI response depends in part on the information retrieved to support it. Rerank V5 reorders retrieved documents based on their relevance to a query, helping applications prioritize the evidence most useful for answering a user’s question.
Built for enterprise search, Rerank V5 is optimized for real-world relevance across domains such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and workplace productivity, with multilingual support for global organizations. Improved, calibrated relevance scores are stable across runs, helping developers set thresholds to filter out less relevant results before they reach the language model.
Reduce token usage with Context Focus
Context Focus identifies and returns the most relevant passages within the documents being reranked. Developers can pass those passages to a language model, reducing the amount of text it needs to process. This can lower token consumption and latency while helping improve the quality of downstream responses.
For example, an employee asking about a specific expense policy may need just a few passages from a lengthy handbook. Context Focus helps applications extract that relevant context for the answer.
Choose Fast or Pro for your workload
Rerank V5 Fast is optimized for low latency and high throughput, making it a fit for high-volume search and agents that perform multiple searches per task. Rerank V5 Pro prioritizes retrieval quality for complex queries and long or specialized documents. The two options let teams choose the balance of quality and performance that fits their application.
Get started in Microsoft Foundry
Explore Cohere Rerank V5 in the Cohere-rerank-v5-pro | Model Catalog | Microsoft Foundry. Evaluate Fast and Pro with your own queries and documents, and assess how Context Focus affects answer quality, token usage, and latency in your search and RAG workflows.
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