diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index 6ef3871a3c1..309c6bce6c2 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -3894,8 +3894,9 @@ def get_optional_params(
         )
 
     elif custom_llm_provider == "cohere_chat" or custom_llm_provider == "cohere":
-        # handle cohere params
-        optional_params = litellm.CohereChatConfig().map_openai_params(
+        # handle cohere params - pick the same config the request transform will
+        # use, so v2 (the default route) maps its own params rather than v1's
+        optional_params = ProviderConfigManager._get_cohere_config(model=model).map_openai_params(
             non_default_params=non_default_params,
             optional_params=optional_params,
             model=model,
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/llms/cohere/chat/test_cohere_v2_param_routing.py b/tests/test_litellm/llms/cohere/chat/test_cohere_v2_param_routing.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..634086d26fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/llms/cohere/chat/test_cohere_v2_param_routing.py
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+"""`get_optional_params` must map Cohere params with the config that will
+actually transform the request.
+
+`CohereModelInfo.get_cohere_route` sends every model to v2 unless the id asks
+for v1, and `ProviderConfigManager` hands the v2 config to the transform. Param
+mapping used to be pinned to the v1 config regardless, so a request could be
+built by v2 while its params were mapped by v1.
+
+The two configs happen to agree today, so this is not a behaviour change. It
+stops them silently disagreeing the moment either one grows a param the other
+does not have.
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("../../../.."))
+
+import pytest
+
+from litellm.llms.cohere.chat.transformation import CohereChatConfig
+from litellm.llms.cohere.chat.v2_transformation import CohereV2ChatConfig
+from litellm.utils import ProviderConfigManager
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("custom_llm_provider", ["cohere", "cohere_chat"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model, expected_config",
+    [
+        ("command-a-03-2025", CohereV2ChatConfig),
+        ("cohere_chat/v1/command-r", CohereChatConfig),
+    ],
+)
+def test_param_mapping_uses_the_route_config(model, expected_config, custom_llm_provider, monkeypatch):
+    """The config that maps params must be the one that transforms the request."""
+    seen = {}
+
+    def record(self, non_default_params, optional_params, model, drop_params):
+        seen["config"] = type(self)
+        return optional_params
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(CohereChatConfig, "map_openai_params", record)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(CohereV2ChatConfig, "map_openai_params", record)
+
+    from litellm.utils import get_optional_params
+
+    get_optional_params(
+        model=model,
+        custom_llm_provider=custom_llm_provider,
+        drop_params=True,
+        temperature=0.5,
+    )
+
+    assert seen["config"] is expected_config
+    assert seen["config"] is type(ProviderConfigManager._get_cohere_config(model=model))