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Cohere: Command R (08-2024)

cohere/command-r-08-2024

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command-r-08-2024 is an update of the Command R with improved performance for multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool use. More broadly, it is better at math, code and reasoning and is competitive with the previous version of the larger Command R+ model.

Read the launch post here(opens in new tab).

Use of this model is subject to Cohere's Usage Policy(opens in new tab) and SaaS Agreement(opens in new tab).

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.15 / $0.60per 1M

Context

128K

Released

Aug 30, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Mar 2024

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ProvidersEffective PricingPerformanceUptimeAppsActivity

Providers

This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.

Effective Pricing

The chart below shows the average price customers are actually paying after prompt caching. Depending on the amount of repeated context you send, this can be 60–80% cheaper than the provider list price. Shown are rolling averages from the past 30 days.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Percent of requests that succeeded over the last 30 days. OpenRouter monitors every provider continuously and automatically retries on the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.