diff --git a/templates/components/cohere.jsonnet b/templates/components/cohere.jsonnet
index 6c99086a..f05cb635 100644
--- a/templates/components/cohere.jsonnet
+++ b/templates/components/cohere.jsonnet
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ local prompts = import "prompts/mixtral.jsonnet";
                         "-k",
                         $["cohere-key"],
                         "-t",
-                        $["cohere-temperature"],
+                        std.toString($["cohere-temperature"]),
                     ])
                     .with_limits("0.5", "128M")
                     .with_reservations("0.1", "128M");
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ local prompts = import "prompts/mixtral.jsonnet";
                         "-k",
                         $["cohere-key"],
                         "-t",
-                        $["cohere-temperature"],
+                        std.toString($["cohere-temperature"]),
                         "-i",
                         "non-persistent://tg/request/text-completion-rag",
                         "-o",