Command R
Command R 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 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Command R
- Released
- 2024-04-04
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 104B*
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0Commercial use: non-commercial
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 6 routes · OpenRouter
About
Command R is a 35-billion parameter large language model developed by Cohere, tailored for enterprise-scale AI applications. It is optimized for long-context tasks such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool use, emphasizing high performance coupled with strong accuracy. This model excels in reasoning, summarization, and question answering across ten key languages. Its use spans various enterprise applications, automating complex tasks that involve interacting with systems like CRMs, APIs, and databases. The model can process up to 128,000 tokens and integrates seamlessly with Cohere's Embed and Rerank models, enhancing accuracy and efficiency in large-scale tasks. Additionally, a more powerful iteration, Command R+ with 104 billion parameters, offers even greater capabilities.
Command R is an open-weight model. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through AWS Bedrock, Cohere API, Microsoft Foundry, and 3 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.15 input and $0.6 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 53.4, HellaSwag 90.8, and HumanEval 77.8.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 6Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.150 | $0.600 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $0.500 | $1.50 | Serverless |
| Cohere API | $0.500 | $1.50 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.500 | $1.50 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(7)
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.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 53.4 | diamondObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| HellaSwag | 90.8 | 10-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | research |
| HumanEval | 77.8 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 80.2 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Comparison and alternatives
Browse all comparisons →Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Command R?
Command R has a context window of 128k tokens.
How much does Command R cost?
Command R pricing ranges from $0.15/1M to $0.5/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Command R released?
Command R was released on 2024-04-04.
Which providers offer Command R?
Command R is available from 6 providers: AWS Bedrock, Cohere API, Microsoft Foundry, OCI Generative AI, OpenRouter, DeepInfra.
What benchmarks has Command R been tested on?
Command R has been evaluated on 4 benchmarks, including Google-Proof Q&A, HellaSwag, HumanEval, Massive Multitask Language Understanding.
Cheapest of 6 routes · OpenRouter