Cohere's RAG workhorse for long-context enterprise search and tool use
Command R+ by cohere is offered by 12 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 11 of them. Its official list price is $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Kilo Gateway at $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M, about 19× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
The context window is 128,000 tokens, with an output limit of 4,000 tokens. It supports tool use and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-06-01.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilo Gateway cohere/command-r-08-2024 | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| OpenRouter cohere/command-r-08-2024 | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| CohereOfficial command-r-08-2024 | First-party | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| Eden AI cohere/command-r-08-2024 | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| Merge Gateway cohere/command-r-08-2024 | Gateway | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| CohereOfficial | First-party | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $2.86 | $14.25 | $1.43 | — | 128,000 | 4,096 | |
| AnyAPI | Gateway | — | — | — | — | 128,000 | 4,000 | hostTable.undisclosed |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.