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Command R+ (08-2024)

Cohere's flagship optimized for RAG and tool use in enterprise settings.

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Quick facts

Released
Aug 2024
Context
128K tokens
Output / 1M
$10.00 / 1M tokens
License
CC-BY-NC 4.0

About Command R+ (08-2024)

Command R+ was the first Cohere model built specifically around RAG and tool use, with citation generation, JSON-mode, and an emphasis on enterprise deployment. It remains the most-used Cohere model for retrieval-heavy workloads.

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 We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.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
75.7
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
  • MMLU75.7

Capabilities

Strengths

  • RAG-tuned
  • Citation generation
  • Enterprise tooling

Tracked weaknesses

  • Non-commercial license on open weights

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Cohere.

TierPriceNotes
Input$2.50 / 1M tokensTokens you send to the model
Output$10.00 / 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-plus-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 $2.50 / 1M tokens for input tokens and $10.00 / 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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