Cohere: Command R (08-2024)

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryTool use

Cohere: Command R (08-2024) is a text model for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows. It combines strong coding performance and reliable tool use and agent behavior with a 128K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows when accuracy, context, and control matters.

Input

$0.15/1M

Output

$0.60/1M

Cached

$0.04/1M

Batch

$0.07/1M

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Technical specifications

Command R (08-2024) at a glance.

Memory

128,000

tokens

Max reply

4,000

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

cohere

Released

Aug 2024

Training cutoff

Mar 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Command R (08-2024)

  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Command R (08-2024) costs roughly $35 per month. Input is $0.15 /1M tokens and output is $0.60 /1M tokens.
Command R (08-2024) has a 128,000-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Command R (08-2024) supports calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Command R (08-2024) was released in August 2024, with training data cut off around March 2024.
Models in a similar class include Command R7B (12-2024), Command A, Command R+ (08-2024). The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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