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Command R (08-2024)

Command R (08-2024) is a Cohere open-weights model, released 30 Aug 2024. It is not yet ranked: 3 independent results so far, and the index needs at least five across two categories. At $0.262 per million tokens blended it is cheaper than most ranked models. Output speed of 25 tokens per second puts it in the slowest quarter, with a first token in 0.3 s. Last measured 2 Sept 2026.

Blended price: $0.262/M; $0.150 in · $0.600 out
Output speed: 25 tok/s; OpenRouter traffic, 7-day median; not yet measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer: 0.31 s
Context: 128k

How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.

Reasoning40
Coding40
Human preference40

Benchmark results

One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmark	default	Source
LMArena Hard Prompts	1256#275	LMArena

Coding

Benchmark	default	Source
LMArena Coding	1281#270	LMArena

Human preference

Benchmark	default	Source
LMArena Text	1250#275	LMArena

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

Provider	Speed	First token	Input $/M	Output $/M	Context	Quantisation
Cohere	25 tok/s	0.31 s	$0.150	$0.600	128k	–

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

Workload	Tokens in / out	Cost	With caching	Time
Chat reply	400 / 300	$0.0002	–	12.3 s
Summarise a 30-page report	12,000 / 600	$0.0022	–	24.3 s
Code edit	6,000 / 1,500	$0.0018	–	1.0 min
Agentic coding session	60,000 / 4,000	$0.011	–	2.7 min
Structured extraction	2,000 / 200	$0.0004	–	8.3 s