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MODEL PROOF # Command R (08-2024) Cohere · 30 Aug 2024 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic BETTER VALUE OPTION ## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price. **$0.263** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out [GLM 5.3 Flash](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) · Δ score 282.3 points · 10% lower measured price · $0.238 / 1M tokens [Gemma 3 4B](/models/google__gemma-3-4b-it/) is a further stored option with these losses: no tool use Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) 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](#billing-details) 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Cohere cohere Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 128,000 tokens Output limit 4,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.98% | Input $0.150 | Output $0.600 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.72% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1187.3 default | | --- | --- | 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](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | 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. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Cohere: Command R (08-2024). Balanced workload. Better value option available. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. Copy model link Download square card · 1080 × 1080 Copy landscape image Share landscape card ## Related - Both better and cheaper [GLM 5.3 Flash](/models/z-ai__glm-5.3-flash/) - Higher score and cheaper, with a named trade [Gemma 3 4B](/models/google__gemma-3-4b-it/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Phi 4](/models/microsoft__phi-4/) - Same vendor [Command A](/models/cohere__command-a/) - Cohere models [Cohere](/providers/cohere/) - Where this model appears [significance](/significance/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Llama 3.1 8B Instruct](/models/meta-llama__llama-3.1-8b-instruct/) - Same vendor [Command A+](/models/cohere__command-a-plus/) - Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/) - Nearby on the capability axis [Command R+ (08-2024)](/models/cohere__command-r-plus-08-2024/) - Same vendor [Command R7B (12-2024)](/models/cohere__command-r7b-12-2024/) ## Badge The verdict as one SVG, for a README or a docs page. 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