Using Command R7B (12-2024) on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter exposes Command R7B (12-2024) through model ID cohere/command-r7b-12-2024. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call cohere/command-r7b-12-2024 — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.04/1M input, $0.15/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.04
Output tokens$0.15

Capabilities

JSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About Command R7B (12-2024)

Command R7B (API id command-r7b-12-2024) is Cohere's smallest R-family enterprise LLM, announced 2024-12-13. 128K context. Optimized for RAG, tool use, and agents. Open weights on Hugging Face under CC-BY-NC-4.0. First-party pricing $0.0375/$0.15 per 1M input/output.

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Model Specs

Released2024-12-13
Parameters7B
Context128K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Knowledge cutoff2024-06

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Provider

OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA