Handy for developers needing small offline translation in 70 languages, Welsh and Irish included, but the open weights are non-commercial only.
Kenning's take
What it does
Tiny Aya is a 3.35-billion-parameter language model from Cohere Labs, built for translation and writing across 70 languages, including Welsh and Irish. It comes as a family of five models: a base model, a balanced global version and three versions tuned for different world regions. The instruction-tuned versions run through the Cohere API, and all are downloadable from Hugging Face to run locally.
- 70 supported languages
- 3.35B parameters with an 8k context window
- Global, Earth, Fire and Water regional variants
- Open weights on Hugging Face with GGUF builds
- Available on the Cohere Chat API
Who it suits. Developers and researchers who need translation or multilingual text on small devices or offline.
Key facts
- Category
- AI models
- Made by
- Cohere (Cohere Labs)
- Released
- 17 February 2026
- How to get it
- open weights on Hugging Face under CC-BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial), and through the Cohere API
- Works on
- API, open-weights
- In the UK
- Yes
- Free plan
- open weights (CC-BY-NC 4.0) and free rate-limited Cohere trial API key
FAQ
When was Tiny Aya released?
Cohere Labs announced Tiny Aya on 17 February 2026.
How many languages does Tiny Aya support?
70 languages, with regional variants tuned for West Asian and African, South Asian, and European and Asia-Pacific languages.
Can Tiny Aya be used commercially?
The Hugging Face weights are under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 licence, which is non-commercial. Paid use runs through the Cohere API.
Facts from the maker's own pages and the sources listed. Checked 2026-10-11.
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