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Command R (08-2024)

Refreshed Command R with improved tool-use, JSON-mode, and Asian-language support.

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Quick facts

Released
Aug 2024
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
$0.60 / 1M tokens
License
CC-BY-NC 4.0

About Command R (08-2024)

The August 2024 Command R refresh added meaningful improvements to tool-use accuracy, JSON-mode strictness, and non-English performance, particularly for CJK languages.

It's the recommended Command R variant for new builds in 2026 and ships with substantially better citation behavior than the original release.

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 We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.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

  • Improved tool-use
  • Strong multilingual

Tracked weaknesses

  • Quality below frontier

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Cohere.

TierPriceNotes
Input$0.15 / 1M tokensTokens you send to the model
Output$0.60 / 1M tokensTokens the model generates
Context128K tokensMax combined input + output

Call Command R (08-2024) 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-08-2024",
  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 (08-2024) cost per million tokens?
    Command R (08-2024) is priced at $0.15 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $0.60 / 1M tokens for output tokens via the official Cohere API at the time of writing.
  • What is Command R (08-2024)'s context window?
    Command R (08-2024) supports a context window of 128K tokens.
  • Is Command R (08-2024) open source?
    Command R (08-2024) 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 (08-2024) released?
    Command R (08-2024) was released on Aug 30, 2024 by Cohere.
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