Command R (Cohere) API

Cohere · serves command-r

Pricing

Input / 1M	$0.15
Output / 1M	$0.60
Blended / 1M	$0.75
Context window	128,000 tokens
Max output	4,096 tokens
License	Open weights · CC-BY-NC 4.0 conditional
Knowledge cutoff	January 2025 · source

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Price verified 2026-09-03 (2 days ago) · sourcecorroborated

Sources

Source	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Verified
Provider page	$0.15	$0.60	2026-09-03
LiteLLM	$0.15	$0.60	2026-09-03
models.dev	$0.15	$0.60	2026-09-04

Two independent sources agree within 20%.

Latency measured

Region	TTFT p50	TTFT p95	Total p50	Total p95	Throughput	Samples
eu-paris	228 ms	548.7 ms	3,239.4 ms	13,469.9 ms	39.6 tok/s	5

Time-to-first-token, measured server-side. Measured 2026-09-04 (0 days ago).

Call it

OpenAI-compatible endpoint — set COHERE_API_KEY.

curl https://api.cohere.ai/compatibility/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COHERE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "command-r-08-2024",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.cohere.ai/compatibility/v1",
    api_key="...",  # COHERE_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="command-r-08-2024",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Price unchanged since 2026-09-03 — 1 point on record.

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