Command R 08-2024

Cohere's mid-range model, refreshed August 2024 and designed for RAG and tool use across 23 languages, sitting below Command A in the lineup.

Params: 32B
Context: 128K tokens
Max output: 4K
Cutoff: Jun 2024
Released: Aug 2024
License: CC-BY-NC

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Hosted API price

List price via Cohere · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.15 /1M
Output: $0.60 /1M
Hosted by: 1 provider

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

Transparency and funding

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Every provider serving Command R 08-2024, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Command R 08-2024, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Cohere Creator	$0.15	$0.60	$2.70	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Command R 08-2024 needs about 22 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 2× RTX 4060 Ti at about $187 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 832M tokens a month on Cohere's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Command R 08-2024 at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 128K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	22 GB41 GB	2× RTX 4060 Ti	$187$230	832M tokens /mo1B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	39 GB45 GB	4× RTX 3060	$230$374	1B tokens /mo2B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	71 GB87 GB	8× RTX 3060	$461$749	2B tokens /mo3B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Command R 08-2024 by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Command R 08-2024 per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Command R 08-2024
Hy3 Tencent	$0.198	$0.132	$0.528	262K		−12%
Ministral 3 14B Mistral	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	256K		−11%
Qwen3.8-Flash Alibaba Cloud	$0.2033	$0.15	$0.47	1M		−10%
Qwen3-VL-8B Alibaba Cloud	$0.2083	$0.15	$0.50	262K		−7%
Qwen-MT-Turbo Alibaba Cloud	$0.215	$0.16	$0.49	16K		−4%
Command R 08-2024 This model Cohere	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Jun 2024
GPT-4o Mini OpenAI	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	128K	Oct 2023	0%
MiniMax-M2.7 MiniMax	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	205K		0%
Mistral Small 4 Mistral	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	256K		0%
Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.225	$0.17	$0.50	262K		0%
Qwen3-Coder-Next Alibaba Cloud	$0.2283	$0.078	$0.98	262K		+1%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Command R 08-2024 accepts and can do, as published by Cohere.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Command R 08-2024 good for?

RAG and tool-use pipelines in 23 languages, at the lower-cost end of Cohere's range. CC-BY-NC weights fit a single high-memory GPU for non-commercial use.

When is Command R 08-2024 not a good fit?

Image input: it is text only. Its short maximum output limits long answers, commercial self-hosting needs a separate licence from Cohere, and the newer Command models know more recent events.

What is the cheapest way to run Command R 08-2024?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Cohere charges $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 2x RTX 4060 Ti at $187 a month, which costs the same as about 832M tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Command R 08-2024?

Yes. The weights are CC-BY-NC licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 22 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $187 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.