Command R+
Command R+ is worth evaluating for rag, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, long context, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Command R
- Released
- 2024-04-04
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 104B*
- 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
Cheapest of 6 routes · Cohere API
About
Command R+ is a powerful large language model from Cohere, tailored for robust enterprise applications. It features an architecturally impressive 104 billion parameters and a 128k-token context window, allowing it to adeptly manage complex tasks and long dialogue sessions. Its cutting-edge capabilities include retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with inline citations, multilingual functionality supporting ten major languages, and multi-step tool usage to automate complex workflows. The model is suited for diverse business operations such as financial analysis, customer support, and content creation, and can be accessed via Cohere's API or through platforms like Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Top use-case fit
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ D1 relevant benchmark 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere API | $2.50 | $10.00 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $2.50 | $10.00 | Serverless |
| AWS Bedrock | $3.00 | $15.00 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $3.00 | $15.00 | 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 Classification
Benchmark scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 79.3 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-07 | — | Source |
| Chatbot Arena | 1210.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Comparison and alternatives
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