How much does Command R cost per million tokens?

Command R is priced at $0.50 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $1.50 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Cohere API at the time of writing.

What is Command R's context window?

Command R supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Command R open source?

Command R ships with open weights under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Command R released?

Command R was released on Mar 11, 2024 by Cohere.

How much does Command R cost per million tokens?

Command R is priced at $0.50 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $1.50 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Cohere API at the time of writing.

What is Command R's context window?

Command R supports a context window of 128K tokens.

Is Command R open source?

Command R ships with open weights under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.

When was Command R released?

Command R was released on Mar 11, 2024 by Cohere.

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Command R

Cohere's mid-tier RAG-optimized model, affordable and reliable on retrieval workloads.

UpdatedApr 30, 2026

Quick facts

Released: Mar 2024
Context: 128K tokens
Output / 1M: $1.50 / 1M tokens
License: CC-BY-NC 4.0

About Command R

Command R is Cohere's mid-tier RAG model and the practical option when Command R+ is overkill. Same RAG and tool-use ergonomics, lower cost, smaller context window.

For enterprise customers already on Cohere infrastructure, Command R is the first tier most workloads start at. Most graduate to Command R+ only when retrieval quality plateaus.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Cohere's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval

Python coding pass@1

MMLU

Broad academic knowledge

GPQA

Graduate-level reasoning

SWE-bench

Real software-engineering tasks

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.

Capabilities

Strengths

Cheap RAG
Reliable tool-use

Tracked weaknesses

Quality below frontier

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Cohere.

Tier	Price	Notes
Input	$0.50 / 1M tokens	Tokens you send to the model
Output	$1.50 / 1M tokens	Tokens the model generates
Context	128K tokens	Max combined input + output

Call Command R from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Cohere SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript

import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  // Use OPENAI_API_KEY for OpenAI, or your provider's key + baseURL.
  apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "command-r",
  messages: [
    { role: "user", content: "What's the time complexity of quicksort?" },
  ],
});

console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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Frequently asked

How much does Command R cost per million tokens?
Command R is priced at $0.50 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $1.50 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Cohere API at the time of writing.
What is Command R's context window?
Command R supports a context window of 128K tokens.
Is Command R open source?
Command R ships with open weights under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
When was Command R released?
Command R was released on Mar 11, 2024 by Cohere.

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