Command R
Cohere retrieval model for long-context chat and enterprise RAG workflows.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $0.15per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.60per 1M tokens
- Context
- 128K4K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.15per million tokens
- Output
- $0.60per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.263cheaper than 73% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.60 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $6.75 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $67.50 |
Official Cohere API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Command R yet.
The details
- Lab
- Cohere
- Released
- Aug 30, 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 1, 2024
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 4,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
command-r-08-2024on Cohere- Availability
- 5 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Command R
How much does Command R cost?
Command R costs $0.15 input / $0.60 output per million tokens (official Cohere API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.263 per million tokens, cheaper than 73% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Command R?
Command R accepts up to 128,000 tokens per request and can write up to 4,000 tokens in one response.
How good is Command R?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Command R yet.
Is Command R open source?
Yes. Cohere publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Command R support?
Command R accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Command R released?
Cohere released Command R on Aug 30, 2024. Its training data runs to Jun 1, 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Command R?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct (Meta, $0.197 / $0.51), Qwen-MT Turbo (Alibaba (Qwen), $0.16 / $0.49), Pixtral 12B (Mistral AI, $0.15 / $0.15) and solar-mini (Upstage, $0.15 / $0.15).