Command R (08-2024) API Pricing
Cohere · context window 128K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Command R (08-2024) sits on price
At $0.6 per million output tokens, Command R (08-2024) is a mid tier model — 3.5× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it cheaper than 78% and pricier than 22% of the models we track. It sits 2th cheapest of the 4 Cohere models we track. Output costs 4.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
What real workloads cost on Command R (08-2024)
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a mid-priced model — a $0.6/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.0016 | $23.85 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0008 | $225 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0002 | $4.95 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Command R (08-2024) with caching and batch options.
Command R (08-2024) price history
Command R (08-2024)'s price has not moved since we began tracking it on Aug 2, 2026 — 44 days of stability in a market where 78 of the 334 models we track have repriced over the same period. Cohere's lineup has held steady across the board.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Command R (08-2024) vs Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct (Alibaba (Qwen)) — priced within a rounding error on output, with identical input pricing. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Command R (08-2024) API cost?
Command R (08-2024) costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 1,666,667 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Command R (08-2024)?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0016 per request and $23.85 per month on Command R (08-2024). Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Command R (08-2024)'s 128K context window?
Sending 128K of input in a single request costs $0.0192 at $0.15 per million tokens — before any output. There is no cached-input tier on this model, so every repeat of that context is billed at full price. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Command R (08-2024) worth the price?
Command R (08-2024) sits in the middle of the market (2 of 4 by price within Cohere). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.