ModelsBenchmark resultRetrieval, RAG & Search1 source · Oct 22, 2026

Cohere Releases Rerank 5 With Passage-Level Context Focus and Calibrated Scores

Cohere AI has released Rerank 5, a new reranker family in Pro and Fast tiers.

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  • Cohere Rerank 5 is a retrieval model that reorders search results before they reach an LLM.
  • It adds 2 developer features: Context Focus, which returns relevant passages inside each document, and calibrated relevance scores.
  • Performance: Pro ranks first on 39 of 46 composite datasets in Cohere’s own evaluation.
  • What is new in Cohere Rerank 5?

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