Command R
CohereReleased Aug 30, 2024Open weights · CC-BY-NC 4.0command-r
- Knowledge cutoff
- January 2025
- Context
- 128k tokens
- Max output
- 4k tokens
- Cohere's API
- yes
Read Sep 3, 00:00 UTC from the hosts' published offers and OpenRouter, spec sheet from Cohere · cutoff: docs.cohere.com
Its only host, Cohere, serves a weights precision we can't read (host terms). Weights and context per host
Run it yourself
open weights, CC-BY-NC 4.0 · fits 6 of the 6 workstations in our guideSelf-host guide ›- Parameters
- 35B
- dense
- Memory needed
- 21 GB
- in INT4 · 42 GB in INT8
- Smallest cloud setup
- RTX 3090
- 24 GB · $0.17/h, about $124 a month
- Worth it above
- 165M tokens
- a month, against the cheapest API at $0.75 per M
| Quantization | Memory | Smallest cloud GPU | Quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| INT4 (Q4) | 21 GB | RTX 3090 · $0.17/h | smallest footprint, minor quality loss |
| INT8 (Q8) | 42 GB | A100 · $1.19/h | near-lossless |
| FP16 (full) | 84 GB | 2× H100 · $4.30/h | reference quality |
At home: in INT4 it fits a RTX 5090 (32 GB) + host PC (plus a host PC), about $3,500 once, or $0.1332/h over 3 years, electricity aside; it pays for itself after about 5B tokens against the cheapest API.
Memory ≈ parameters × bytes per parameter × 1.2 · cloud price: on-demand rate, running 24/7 · builds: GGUF, AWQ, MLX, GPTQ, Ollama · break-even calculator
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache ↑ | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohereprecision not read: host terms · 125K ctx · 4K out | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | Sep 3 |
1 provider · prices per million tokens, read Sep 3, 00:00 UTC · under each host: weights precision, context and max output as served, the maker's value in brackets when the host's differs
| Provider | Weights | Context | Max output | Tools | Structured outputs | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere | not read: host terms | 125K | 4K | — | — | — |
Weights, context and max output: read at each host's own catalogue or docs where its terms allow, otherwise as the host declares to OpenRouter; hover a cell for its source and date · tools, structured outputs, reasoning: as declared to OpenRouter · not verified by us
Command R spec sheet, field by field, with sources
Command R spec sheetmaker-declared
What the maker declares about the model itself — read from its own weights repository and documentation, not from any host. What each endpoint actually serves is in the pricing above: the two can differ, and both are true.
- Context window
- to verify
- Parameters
- to verify
- Active experts
- to verify
- Weight precision
- to verify
- License
- CC-BY-NC 4.0 — open weights, conditionalScope: the licence on the published weights, and nothing else. It is not the maker's acceptable-use policy, which is a separate document, and it is not the contract you sign with whichever host you call — hosts set their own terms, which this index does not read.
- Knowledge cutoff
- January 2025maker's docs
- Modalities
- to verify
- Max output (official)
- to verify
- Release date
- to verify≈ August 30, 2024 third-party catalogue — not the maker's figure
- Maker lifecycle status
- to verify
huggingface.co · maker's documentation · read 2026-09-07 · 2 of 10 fields published by the maker
| Provider | Chatbot 1,000 in / 500 out | RAG / long context 8,000 in / 500 out | Batch summarize 4,000 in / 1,000 out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere | $0.45 | $1.50 | $1.20 |
What each host bills for 1,000 requests of a representative job
Your own workload
Other Cohere models · all its models, hosts and history ›
- Command A1 provider · from $12.50
- Command A+1 provider · from $1.80
- Command R+ (08-2024)1 provider · from $12.50
- Command R7B (12-2024)1 provider · from $0.19
- North Mini Code0 provider · from —