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Command R (08-2024) Pricing
Cohere · cohere-command-r-08-2024
Input / 1M tokens
$0.150
Output / 1M tokens
$0.600
Context window
128k tokens
≈ 171 pages of text
Max output
4k tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0004
1,000 requests / month$0.42/mo10,000 requests / month$4.20/mo100,000 requests / month$42.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Command R (08-2024) preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Effective for RAG, tool use, and multilingual retrieval tasks with 128k context at low token cost.
The business tradeoff
Maximum output limited to 4k tokens; reasoning depth trails current frontier models on complex multi-step problems.
Cheaper from Cohere
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.