One agent session
1M input tokens and 100K output tokens, no caching.
- Input1M x $0.15 = $0.15
- Output0.1M x $0.60 = $0.06
$0.21per session
Cohere - Open weights
Command R 08-2024 pricing and specs
Command R 08-2024 is an open-weights model from Cohere that costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens on the first-party API, with a 128K-token context window.
Last verified from cohere.com. All sources
- Input / 1M
- $0.15
- Output / 1M
- $0.60
- Context
- 128K tokens
- Weights
- Open
Pricing per 1M tokens
| Item | Price / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 |
| Output | $0.60 |
Note: Shown as 'Command R' on the cohere.com/pricing Generative models tab at $0.15 input / $0.60 output per 1M tokens. The same price appears on the model doc and in the August 30, 2024 refresh changelog. The bare `command-r` alias points to the older command-r-03-2024, which was deprecated on Sept 15, 2025. That model's legacy price ($0.50/$1.50) is on the pricing FAQ for existing customers only and is not this entry. Cohere does not publish cache or batch prices. Text-only. Not in the Vercel AI Gateway model list on 2026-10-17.
Specs
- Context window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max output
- 4,000 tokens
- Release date
- Provider
- Cohere
- API model id
command-r-08-2024- Weights
- Open weights
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 (Hugging Face license tag: cc-by-nc-4.0; gated, non-commercial use only)
- Weights download
- huggingface.co
What Command R 08-2024 costs in practice
Worked from the standard list rates above, with the math shown so you can swap in your own token counts.
A chat app
10,000 requests a day at 2K input and 500 output tokens each.
- Input20M x $0.15 = $3.00
- Output5M x $0.60 = $3.00
$6.00per day
$180.00 per 30-day month
Compare with
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| Command R 08-2024 (this page) | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| GPT-4o MiniOpenAI | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| Mistral Small 4Mistral AI | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| Hy3Tencent | $0.132 | $0.528 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| Command R7BCohere | $0.0375 | $0.15 |
| Aya Expanse 32BCohere | $0.50 | $1.50 |
| Command ACohere | $2.50 | $10 |
| Command R+ 08-2024Cohere | $2.50 | $10 |
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FAQ
How much does Command R 08-2024 cost per million tokens?
Command R 08-2024 costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens on Cohere's first-party API, per cohere.com on October 17, 2026.
What is Command R 08-2024's context window?
Command R 08-2024 has a 128,000-token context window and returns up to 4,000 output tokens per response.
Are Command R 08-2024's weights open?
Yes. Command R 08-2024's weights are published at https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/c4ai-command-r-08-2024 under the CC-BY-NC-4.0 (Hugging Face license tag: cc-by-nc-4.0; gated, non-commercial use only).
When was Command R 08-2024 released?
Cohere released Command R 08-2024 on August 30, 2024.
Sources
Last verified from cohere.com.
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