vs
0:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 2 scored). Command R (08-2024) leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
Verdict
Command R7B is ~4.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than Command R (08-2024).
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Command R (08-2024)
- $0.30
- Command R7B
- $0.07
Command R7B is about 4.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Cohere
Cohere
Family
Command
Command
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Aug 1, 2024
Dec 14, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06-01
-
API / provider
Cohere
Cohere
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
128K
128K
Max output
4K
4K
Parameters
—
7B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.15
$0.04
Output $/1M
$0.60
$0.15
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.26
$0.07
Speed
tok/s
90
120
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
33.8
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,250
—
| Metric | Command R (08-2024) | Command R7B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Cohere | Cohere | — |
| Family | Command | Command | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Aug 1, 2024 | Dec 14, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-06-01 | - | — |
| API / provider | Cohere | Cohere | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 128K | tie |
| Max output | 4K | 4K | tie |
| Parameters | — | 7B | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.15 | $0.04 | B +$0.11 |
| Output $/1M | $0.60 | $0.15 | B +$0.45 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.26 | $0.07 | B +$0.20 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 90 | 120 | B +30 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.2 | B +0.15 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 33.8 | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,250 | — | — |
Command R (08-2024)
- Context
- 128K / 4K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.60
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cost-efficient Cohere RAG tier — simpler retrieval and single-step tool use versus Command R+.
Command R7B
- Context
- 128K / 4K out
- Parameters
- 7B
- Price
- $0.04 / $0.15
- Speed
- 120 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cohere's cheapest production chat SKU — fast RAG and agent routing at sub-$0.20/1M blended rates.
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