Command Light

Name: Command Light
Author: Cohere

Released

2023-11-14

Last refreshed

2026-06-15

Status

Researched 126d ago

DeprecatedOpen weightsCommercial use: non-commercialClassificationJSON / Tool use

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

Cohere releases · 5 in the last 12 monthsChangelog →

Specifications

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
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

$0.600

Input / 1M

$0.300

Cheapest of 3 routes · AWS Bedrock

Providers(3)

AWS Bedrock OCI Generative AI Cohere API

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About

Command Light is Cohere's smaller, faster legacy variant of Command. Cohere lists it as deprecated as of September 15, 2025; use current Command A or Command R variants for new builds.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
AWS Bedrock	$0.300	$0.600	Serverless
Cohere API	$0.300	$0.600	Serverless
OCI Generative AI	-	-	ServerlessPartial

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