Model · Cohere

Command R

Balanced Cohere family for retrieval-heavy agents, multilingual support, and business chat workloads.

Pricing

Model Overview

Tracked token-pricing fields for this model family. Empty pricing fields stay hidden until the source publishes them.

Surface

Input and output modalities, enabled feature flags, strengths, and tradeoffs.

Model capabilities
Attribute	Values
Modalities	text to text
Capabilities	reasoningbatchSupportpromptCachingfunctionCallingstructuredOutputs
Strengths	Balanced enterprise tier, Affordable RAG model
Tradeoffs	Less capable than Command A

References

Canonical launch, documentation, pricing, and release-note URLs.

Official model links
Reference	URL
Intro	https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models
Docs	https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models
Pricing	https://cohere.com/pricing
Release note	https://docs.cohere.com/release-notes/

Coverage

Reported benchmark families, versions, scores, sources, and notes.

Benchmark coverage
Benchmark	Version	Score	Date	Source	Notes

Lifecycle

Lifecycle transitions and release timeline for this model family.

Release history
Release	Alias	Lifecycle	Release Date	Deprecation	Shutdown	Summary
Command R	command-r-08-2024	Active	Aug 1, 2024	—	—	Current published model family snapshot.

Surfaces

Provider-specific hosting, context, pricing notes, feature differences, and provider-status context.

Host coverage
Host	Type	Context	Pricing Note	Differences
Cohere API	first-party	128.0K	Reference pricing and direct Cohere access.	RAG and agent support

Migration

Documented migration summary, successor families, and known breaking changes.

Migration guidance
Topic	Details
Summary	Middle tier between Command R7B and Command A for retrieval-heavy workloads.
Replacement models	command-a-03-2025

Timeline

Cataloged model-family updates and source references.

Change events
Date	Type	Title	Description	Source
Aug 1, 2024	family_added	Command R published	Initial public model family launch.	Command R release notes

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