Command

Released
2023-11-14
Last refreshed
2026-10-09
Status
Researched 171d ago
DeprecatedOpen weightsCommercial use: not permittedClassificationJSON / Tool use

Command is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.

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Specifications
Family
Command
Released
2023-11-14
Context
4K
Max output
4K
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2023-02
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
License
CC-BY-NC-4.0Not permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by
Cohere

Empowering developers with advanced language AI.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded 2022
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$2.00
Input / 1M
$1.00

Cheapest of 4 routes · Cohere API

Providers(4)
AWS BedrockOCI Generative AICohere APIScale AI GenAI Platform
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About

Command is Cohere's legacy instruction-following conversational model. Cohere lists it as deprecated as of September 15, 2025; use current Command A or Command R variants for new builds.

Providers(4)

Compare all 4

Compare API pricing across 4 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Cohere API$1.00$2.00
Serverless
AWS Bedrock$1.50$2.00
Serverless
OCI Generative AI--
ServerlessPartial
Scale AI GenAI Platform--
ServerlessPartial

Available via routers & gateways(5)

LiteLLM

Gateway

Open-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.

Free OSSCohere API

OpenRouter

Hybrid

Unified hybrid gateway to 500+ models from 80+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with an optional Auto Router that selects a model per prompt from market spend data.

Passthrough + feeCohere API

Portkey

Gateway

Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, caching, and guardrails; MIT-licensed open-source core is self-hostable. Now part of Palo Alto Networks as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.

SubscriptionCohere API

Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing

Router

AWS Bedrock's native prompt router that predicts each model's performance per request and routes between two models of the same family (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama or Amazon Nova).

Passthrough + feeAWS Bedrock

Kong AI Gateway

Gateway

Multi-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.

SubscriptionCohere API

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

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