Command R 08-2024

Released
2024-08-01
Last refreshed
2026-05-16
Status
Researched 179d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: not permittedRAGAgentsLong contextClassificationJSON / Tool use
Cohere releases · 10 in the last 12 monthsChangelog →
Specifications
Family
Command
Released
2024-08-01
Context
128K
Knowledge cutoff
2024-03
Openness
Open weights
License
CC-BY-NC-4.0Not permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Created by
Cohere

Empowering developers with advanced language AI.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded 2022
Website
Pricing

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Links
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About

Cohere Command R August 2024 refresh — an updated version of Command R with improved multilingual performance. Supports tool calling and is available on Azure AI Foundry as a serverless pay-as-you-go endpoint.

Providers

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Deprecated provider routes(1)

ProviderStatusCatalog ID
Microsoft Foundry
DeprecatedRetired May 12, 2026
Cohere-command-r-08-2024

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Capabilities

JSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor RAG

RULERRank 17 of 31
Nemotron 3 Super-120B-A12B
96.8
Jamba 1.5 Large
95.1
MiniMax-01
94.7
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
93.9
Command R 08-2024current
74.7

Benchmark scores(2)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
RULER
74.7RULER (128K) (accuracy)Observed 2026-10-26—
Source
LMArena Text Arena - Creative Writing
1170.0text creative_writing 2026-10-22Observed 2026-10-22
Configuration: Command R (08-2024)
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena Text arena, Creative Writing category (no style control), board published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @a467e6b9, text config, latest split). Board entry 'Command R (08-2024)' (category creative_writing in text/latest-00000-of-00001.parquet): rank 324 of 416, rating 1169.7 (95% CI 1154.3-1185.0), 1421 votes. Source: LMArena (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-27.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

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