Command-R+ (Apr ’24)

Command-R+ (Apr ’24)

Cohere · Released Apr 4, 2024
Intelligence #588 / 699
19.5 our score
AA Index #394 / 427
2.6 Artificial Analysis
Input Price #640 / 714
$3.00 per 1M tokens
Output Price #648 / 714
$15.00 per 1M tokens
Context
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Analysis Summary

Command-R+ is an older Cohere model with limited measured reasoning, knowledge, and coding results. Its listed pricing is $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, a high cost relative to the capability evidence provided. No context, speed, modality, or tool-use details are included.

The model may remain relevant to teams with an established deployment and a specific retrieval workflow, but it is not a strong new choice for content, SEO, software engineering, or agents. The cost profile especially weakens its case for bulk automation. New deployments should favour models with stronger measured performance or materially lower operating costs.

Assessed August 9, 2026

Editorial notes

Command-R+ is an older Cohere model with low measured reasoning and coding performance, and its high listed output price makes it difficult to justify for current agency workflows.

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DFO Verdict

Command-R+ is an older Cohere model with low measured reasoning and coding performance, and its high listed output price makes it difficult to justify for current agency workflows.

#588 of 699 overall

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond 32.3%
HLE 4.5%
MMLU Pro 43.2%
MATH 500 27.9%
AIME 0.7%
SciCode 11.8%
LiveCodeBench 12.2%

Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.

2.6 Intelligence Index

How Command-R+ (Apr ’24) compares

Command-R+ (Apr ’24) ranks #394 of 427 AI models we track for overall intelligence. At $3.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 10% of comparable models.

Position in the field
Intelligence: smarter than 16% of models #588
Price: cheaper than 10% of models #640
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Command-R+ (Apr ’24) $3.00 in $15.00 out
Claude Opus 5 $5.00 in $25.00 out
SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 $2.00 in $6.00 out
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max $2.00 in $6.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens
Command-R+ (Apr ’24) 0

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Intelligence1.1Technical0Value5Content2.3
Performance profile

Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.

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Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $3.00 $0.003000
Output $15.00 $0.015000

What would Command-R+ (Apr ’24) cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$0/mo Command-R+ (Apr ’24)

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DFO AI AUTOMATION

These numbers get smaller with the right architecture.

We route routine calls to cheap models and save Command-R+ (Apr ’24) for the hard ones. Most clients cut their estimate by 60-80%.

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Frequently asked questions about Command-R+ (Apr ’24)

How much does Command-R+ (Apr ’24) cost?

Command-R+ (Apr ’24) costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens.

Who created Command-R+ (Apr ’24)?

Command-R+ (Apr ’24) is developed by Cohere and was released on April 4, 2024.

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