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Command R

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Mid-tier Command R — 35B dense model tuned for citation-grounded RAG and tool use, at a fraction of Command R+'s cost.

Command R is a efficient AI model from Cohere. It costs $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens (blended $0.285/M), with a 128K-token context window.

Released Mar 2024Modalities textOfficial model page ↗Provider pricing ↗API docs ↗Compare with another model →Estimate monthly cost →
INPUT
$0.150/M
per million input tokens
OUTPUT
$0.600/M
per million output tokens
BLENDED 70/30
$0.285/M
default reference rate · how it's calculated →
CONTEXT
128K
128,000 tokens
What it's good at
  • RAG-tuned with citations
  • 128K context
  • Tool use
  • Cheap
Typical use cases
  • High-volume RAG
  • Citation-grounded answers
  • Cost-sensitive enterprise chat
Benchmarks
vs. best public score
MMLU68%
Multitask academic knowledge across 57 subjects.
HumanEval58%
Python function synthesis from docstrings.
LMArena Elo1148 Elo
Crowd-sourced head-to-head preference Elo rating.
Hand-curated from each provider's published reports and public leaderboards. Methodology varies across sources — treat as directional rather than authoritative.
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Frequently asked questions

How much does Command R cost?

Command R costs $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens, for a blended reference rate of $0.285 per million tokens.

What is Command R's context window?

Command R supports up to 128K tokens of context (128,000 tokens).

What is Command R best for?

Command R is well suited to RAG-tuned with citations, 128K context and Tool use.

Who makes Command R?

Command R is developed and served by Cohere. It was released in Mar 2024.