Command R (08-2024) by Cohere is a text model for conversational interaction, long-context tasks, grounded RAG, tool use, and 128K context.
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Command R (08-2024) is Cohere’s August 2024 refresh of its text generation model, positioned for conversational interaction, long-context tasks, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool use. Cohere documents it as a scalable model for production workloads with grounded generation support and a 128K context window.
| Aspect | Official Characteristic |
|---|---|
| Context | Supports a 128,000-token context window. |
| Retrieval | Built for RAG workflows and grounded generation from supplied document snippets. |
| Tool use | Trained for conversational tool use with JSON-formatted action planning. |
| Languages | Optimized for 10 key languages, with additional pretraining data in 13 more languages. |
| Update impact | The August 2024 release improved tool-use decisions, instruction following, structured data analysis, and robustness to prompt formatting changes. |
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| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Cohere | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | March 12, 2024 | July 24, 2026 | June 9, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | Mar 2024 | May 2026 | - |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 128K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.50 Best Input Pricing | $5 | $10 |
| Output Pricing | $1.50 Best Output Pricing | $25 | $50 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | text | textimage | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 1.7 | 63.1 Best Intelligence Index | 62.1 |
| Coding Index | - | 78.0 Best Coding Index | 76.5 |
| Agentic Index | - | 59.2 Best Agentic Index | 56.6 |
Graduate-level reasoning and expert Q&A evaluation.
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Scientific coding and mathematical modeling.
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