Command R7B (12-2024) API Pricing
Cohere · context window 128K · prices updated 2026-09-15
Where Command R7B (12-2024) sits on price
At $0.15 per million output tokens, Command R7B (12-2024) is a budget tier model — 13.9× cheaper than the median output price of $2.08, which puts it in the cheapest 10% of everything we track. It is the 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 R7B (12-2024)
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.15/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $108 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0 | $1.24 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0002 | $56.25 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Command R7B (12-2024) with caching and batch options.
Command R7B (12-2024) price history
Command R7B (12-2024)'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 R7B (12-2024) vs Qwen3.5-9B
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Qwen3.5-9B (Alibaba (Qwen)) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.0625 more per million input tokens. 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 Qwen3.5-9B pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Command R7B (12-2024) API cost?
Command R7B (12-2024) costs $0.0375 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens and no discounted cached-input tier. That works out to roughly 6,666,667 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Command R7B (12-2024)?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $108 per month on Command R7B (12-2024). Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Command R7B (12-2024)'s 128K context window?
Sending 128K of input in a single request costs $0.0048 at $0.0375 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 R7B (12-2024) worth the price?
Command R7B (12-2024) is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 97% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.