MODEL PROOF
Command R (08-2024)
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 282.3 points · 10% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens
Gemma 3 4B is a further stored option with these losses: no tool use
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,187.3 ± 6.52 · 10,140 votes
- Context window
- 128K
- Maximum output
- 4K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.150 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.600 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from Cohere: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at the maker’s precision or better, at its standard rate.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.150/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.600/M |
| Cached input | Unknown/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coherecohere Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $0.600 | undeclared | 99.72% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1187.3default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 128K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 4K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-03-31 |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
command-r-08-2024 is an update of the [Command R](/models/cohere/command-r) with improved performance for multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool use. More broadly, it is better at math, code and reasoning and...
Questions this page answers
What does Command R (08-2024) cost?
$0.150/M in, $0.600/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Command R (08-2024) have an independent quality score?
Command R (08-2024) has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Command R (08-2024)?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Command R (08-2024)?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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