Command R (08-2024)

Price

Input

$0.15 per 1M tokens

Output

$0.6 per 1M tokens

Notes

Price is the 'Command R' card on cohere.com/pricing, command-r-08-2024 is the live Command R model in Cohere's docs. The deprecated Command R 03-2024 has a separate legacy price.

Source

Cohere pricing , last verified October 8, 2026

No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

Model

Context

128K (128,000 tokens)

Max output

4,000 tokens

Modality

Text

Input

text

Output

text

Weights

Closed

Released

August 1, 2024

Tags

rag, tool-use

Docs

Provider documentation

Data policy

Prompts go to

Cohere SaaS Platform

Retention

Logged prompts and generations deleted after 30 days unless flagged or legally required, you can opt out of training use in dashboard Data Controls, ZDR for approved enterprise customers

Zero data retention

Available

Region

Not stated

Policy

Cohere data policy

Summarised from the provider's published terms. The provider's own policy is what applies.

Call it with any OpenAI SDK

Available when the model is live

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.safeguard.sh/v1",
    api_key="SAFEGUARD_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="cohere/command-r-08-2024",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Base URL https://api.safeguard.sh/v1, model cohere/command-r-08-2024.