diff --git a/langchain/embeddings/cohere.py b/langchain/embeddings/cohere.py
index de3648a9..c6d5055f 100644
--- a/langchain/embeddings/cohere.py
+++ b/langchain/embeddings/cohere.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class CohereEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     model: str = "large"
     """Model name to use."""
 
-    truncate: str = "NONE"
+    truncate: Optional[str] = None
     """Truncate embeddings that are too long from start or end ("NONE"|"START"|"END")"""
 
     cohere_api_key: Optional[str] = None
diff --git a/langchain/llms/cohere.py b/langchain/llms/cohere.py
index adb50ad3..de246e22 100644
--- a/langchain/llms/cohere.py
+++ b/langchain/llms/cohere.py
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ class Cohere(LLM, BaseModel):
     presence_penalty: int = 0
     """Penalizes repeated tokens."""
 
+    truncate: Optional[str] = None
+    """Specify how the client handles inputs longer than the maximum token
+    length: Truncate from START, END or NONE"""
+
     cohere_api_key: Optional[str] = None
 
     stop: Optional[List[str]] = None
@@ -83,6 +87,7 @@ class Cohere(LLM, BaseModel):
             "p": self.p,
             "frequency_penalty": self.frequency_penalty,
             "presence_penalty": self.presence_penalty,
+            "truncate": self.truncate,
         }
 
     @property