Command R: API pricing, providers and specs
Command R is a text model by Cohere. 2 providers serve it, from $0.60 to $0.80 /1M; the lowest price is at OpenRouter.
How Command R compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.60 /1M against a median of $1.10; 39% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 128K-token context window is larger than 12% of them (median 262K), about 190 pages of text.
- 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license: no commercial use.
Command R prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.15/1M | From$0.60/1M | — | 128K |
 AIHubMix | $0.20/1M | From$0.80/1M | — | — |
- OpenRouterFrom$0.60
- AIHubMixFrom$0.80
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Cohere
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 128K≈ 190 pages of text
- Max output
- 4K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling
- Released
- Aug 19, 2024
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0no commercial use
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 32B
Alternatives to Command R
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command Rthis model | $0.60/1M | 128K | — | 2 |
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| GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.20/1M | 1.05M | 1608 | 45 |
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| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
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The lowest price for Command R is $0.60 /1M, at OpenRouter.
OpenRouter, at $0.60 /1M. 2 providers serve Command R; the table above lists every one with its price.
Command R reads up to 128K tokens per request and writes up to 4K.
Yes. Command R's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
About 32B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
2 API providers serve Command R. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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