Analysis Summary
Cohere's Command-R+ was an enterprise-focused upgrade at launch, improving slightly on reasoning and coding over Command-R, but its benchmarks remain low by current standards. Pricing is higher than many newer, more capable alternatives.
It suits retrieval-augmented generation, structured business queries, or moderate-complexity assistant tasks, but lacks the reasoning depth for coding-heavy or agentic workflows.
Given the price-to-capability ratio, most businesses would get better value moving to a more recent model in Cohere's lineup or a competing provider.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
Command-R+ (Apr '24) offers modest improvements over its predecessor but remains far behind current reasoning and coding benchmarks at a relatively high price point.
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DFO Verdict
Command-R+ (Apr '24) offers modest improvements over its predecessor but remains far behind current reasoning and coding benchmarks at a relatively high price point.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
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How Command-R+ (Apr ’24) compares
Command-R+ (Apr ’24) ranks #368 of 401 AI models we track for overall intelligence. At $3.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 11% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
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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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $3.00 | $0.003000 |
| Output | $15.00 | $0.015000 |
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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.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: August 6, 2026 8:38 pm