Cohere · Command R

Command R+

Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist with clean tool calling.

Command R+ is the model built around retrieval and tool-calling rather than topping a leaderboard. For enterprise teams shipping RAG pipelines where citation accuracy matters more than benchmark scores, it's a credible non-OpenAI choice - and the open weights mean you're not locked in.

Specs

Context window: 128K tokens
Input ($/1M tokens): $2.50
Output ($/1M tokens): $10.00
Modalities: Text
Released: Apr 4, 2024
Weights: Open

Capabilities

Tool use
Vision
Extended thinking
Prompt caching
Open weights

API model id

command-r-plus

Vendor docs: docs.cohere.com

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