Command
Command is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 4k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Command
- Released
- 2023-11-14
- Context
- 4k
- Max output
- 4,096
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2023-02
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0Commercial use: non-commercial
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 4 routes · Cohere API
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.
Command is an open-weight model. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through AWS Bedrock, OCI Generative AI, Cohere API, and 1 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1 input and $2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Command yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 4Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
GatewayOpen-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.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-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.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Command?
Command has a context window of 4k tokens.
What is the max output of Command?
Command can generate up to 4,096 output tokens.
How much does Command cost?
Command pricing ranges from $1.00/1M to $1.50/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Command released?
Command was released on 2023-11-14.
Which providers offer Command?
Command is available from 4 providers: AWS Bedrock, OCI Generative AI, Cohere API, Scale AI GenAI Platform.
Cheapest of 4 routes · Cohere API