Pricing · Cohere
Command R (08-2024)
Cohere's command-r-08-2024, 128K tokens of context. Every number on this page was read off Cohere's own pricing
page — never estimated, never recalled from memory.
How Cohere describes it
“command-r-08-2024 delivers around 50% higher throughput and 20% lower latencies as compared to the previous Command R version, while cutting the hardware footprint required to serve the model by half.”
Pricing
| Input | $0.15 | per 1M tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.60 | per 1M tokens |
At the calculator's starting volume, 1M input tokens and 200K output tokens with no cache hits, Command R (08-2024) costs $0.27: $0.15 for input and $0.12 for output, at the prices above. Same formula as the calculator; change the volume there.
Where this price sits
$0.15 per 1M input tokens is the 6th cheapest input price of the 67 current models with a verified price on this site, and the 2nd of Cohere's 4. Output costs 4.0× the input price.
Against Command R (03-2024)
Command R (03-2024) is the earlier version of the same name in this dataset (deprecated). Against Command R (03-2024), Command R (08-2024) has input at $0.15 against $0.50, 3.3× less; output at $0.60 against $1.50, 2.5× less (per 1M tokens). Its prices were verified September 12, 2026: Command R (03-2024) pricing →
Specifications
| API model id | command-r-08-2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Context window | 128K tokens | |
| Max output | 4K tokens | |
| Status | Current | |
It returns up to 4K tokens per response, against a context window of 128K tokens.
Questions about Command R (08-2024) pricing
- How much does Command R (08-2024) cost per million tokens?
- $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, read on Cohere's documentation page on September 22, 2026.
Verified by hand on 2026-09-22 against the model page this row cites, docs.cohere.com/docs/command-r, whose Pricing block prints 'Input', '$ 0.15 / 1M tokens', 'Output', '$ 0.6 / 1M tokens'. Cohere's general pricing page, cohere.com/pricing, does not name Command R 08-2024; the price is on the model page only.
Verified September 22, 2026 against Cohere's documentation page. Confidence: confirmed. No price change recorded for this model. How the data is checked.
Other Cohere models with a verified price
- Command R7B $0.0375 in · $0.15 out
- Command A $2.50 in · $10.00 out
- Command R+ (08-2024) $2.50 in · $10.00 out
Cheaper or equally priced alternatives
Current models with an input price at or below $0.15 per 1M tokens.
- Mistral Small 4 Mistral $0.15 in · $0.60 out
- Ministral 3 8B Mistral $0.15 in · $0.15 out
- Qwen3.8-Flash Alibaba (Qwen) $0.15 in · $0.47 out
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Alibaba (Qwen) $0.15 in · $0.47 out
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