Cohere: Command R (08-2024)
Analysis Summary
Cohere: Command R (08-2024) sits in the Legacy tier on our leaderboard, ranked #324 of 525 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.150 input and $0.600 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use and function calling.
Editorial notes
Cohere's Command R (08-2024) offers tool use and function calling with a 128K context window at a competitive price, making it a reasonable lightweight option for retrieval and agentic tasks. Without benchmark data its capability ceiling is unclear, and stronger alternatives exist at similar price points.
Assessed April 23, 2026
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Performance Profile
command-r-08-2024 is an update of the Command R with improved performance for multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool use. More broadly, it is better at math, code and reasoning and..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
cohere/command-r-08-2024
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| Provider | cohere |
| Release Date | August 30, 2024 |
| Context Length | 128,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 4,000 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 | $0.000150 |
| Output | $0.60 | $0.000600 |
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