Command R pricing
Command R, Mid-tier from Cohere, costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens.
Input$0.15per 1M tokens
Output$0.60per 1M tokens
Context window128Ktokens
TierMidCohere
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Specs and pricing
| Provider | Cohere |
| Tier | Mid |
| Context window | 128K tokens |
| Max output | 4K tokens |
| Input price | $0.15 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $0.60 / 1M tokens |
| Modalities | text |
| Released | 2024-03 |
What it costs at realistic volumes
Assuming a 4:1 input:output token ratio, a common shape for chat and RAG-style workloads:
| Volume (4:1 in:out ratio) | Input cost | Output cost | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 in / 250,000 out | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.30 |
| 10,000,000 in / 2,500,000 out | $1.50 | $1.50 | $3.00 |
| 100,000,000 in / 25,000,000 out | $15.00 | $15.00 | $30.00 |
Cheaper alternatives
Same tier (Mid), a different provider, and a lower blended cost at the 4:1 ratio used above:
| Model | Provider | $/1M in | $/1M out | At the 4:1 ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 120B | OpenRouter | $0.037 | $0.17 | 73.5% cheaper blended |
| GPT-OSS 120B | Novita AI | $0.05 | $0.25 | 62.5% cheaper blended |
| Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo | DeepInfra | $0.10 | $0.32 | 40% cheaper blended |
| Nemotron 3 Super | OpenRouter | $0.085 | $0.40 | 38.3% cheaper blended |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | Baseten | $0.13 | $0.26 | 35% cheaper blended |