Cohere

Command R

CTX128K

22Quality

Tools

Input$0.15/M

Output$0.60/M

Cohere retrieval model for long-context chat and enterprise RAG workflows

Open weightsCC BY-NC 4.0378/1044

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Command R

Cohere retrieval model for long-context chat and enterprise RAG workflows

command-r-08-2024

Type: Text
Quality: 22 · Top 78% on the LMArena Text
Context window: 128,000 tokens
Max output: 4,000 tokens
Input price: $0.15 / 1M tokens
Output price: $0.60 / 1M tokens
Cache read: —
Cache write: —
Released: Aug 30, 2024
Knowledge cutoff: Jun 2024
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: No
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: No
Access: Open weights
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Rarity: Common
Set number: 378/1044

Open Cohere docs Quality 22 Where to run it 6 Meet its creature Battle MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

No matching Hugging Face repo was found, so this shows Cohere’s usual open-weight license. Check the model card before relying on it. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: docs.cohere.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Command R, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 78% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #325.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text#325 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,187 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#330 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,169 rating
LMArena Text · Math#329 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,155 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#322 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,170 rating

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

6 providers sell Command R through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestCohere$0.15 in · $0.60 out
From the labCohere$0.15 in · $0.60 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
CohereOfficialCheapest paid`command-r-08-2024`	$0.15	$0.60	128K
Eden AI`cohere/command-r-08-2024`	$0.15	$0.60	128K
Kilo Gateway`cohere/command-r-08-2024`	$0.15	$0.60	128K
Merge Gateway`cohere/command-r-08-2024`	$0.15	$0.60	128K
OpenRouter`cohere/command-r-08-2024`	$0.15	$0.60	128K
AI/ML API`cohere/command-r-08-2024`	$0.21	$0.83	128K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Command R

Command R

How good is it?

Leaderboards

Where to run it

API providers

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