Cohere Command R pricing
The cheap end of Cohere's range, aimed at retrieval pipelines where the model's job is to ground an answer in supplied documents rather than to reason from scratch.
List prices checked
By Cohere · Small / fast tier
Token pricing
Per million tokens, from the official price list.
| Token type | Price per 1M | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.150 | Everything you send, including the system prompt |
| Output | $0.600 | Everything the model generates, reasoning tokens included |
| Blended (3:1) | $0.262 | One number for ranking, at three input tokens per output token |
Source: Cohere pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.
Capabilities
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Context window | 128K tokens |
| Inputs accepted | text |
| Cost to fill the context once | $0.02 |
What it costs per month
Token prices applied to three workload shapes. Input-heavy and output-heavy workloads rank models very differently.
In-app chat assistant
A support or help assistant handling a few thousand conversations a month, with short prompts and short answers.
$6.00/mo
- 20M input tokens$3.00
- 5M output tokens$3.00
RAG over documents
Retrieval-augmented answering where each request stuffs several retrieved passages into the prompt, so input dominates.
$54/mo
- 300M input tokens$45
- 15M output tokens$9.00
Coding agent
An agentic loop that reads files and writes patches, generating heavy output and re-sending large context on every turn.
$120/mo
- 400M input tokens$60
- 100M output tokens$60
Cohere Command R vs other small / fast models
Same capability tier, ranked by blended token price.
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o mini | $0.150 | $0.600 | 128K | Head to head |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | $0.100 | $0.400 | 1M | Head to head |
| Mistral Small | $0.100 | $0.300 | 131K | Head to head |
| GPT-5 nano | $0.050 | $0.400 | 400K | Head to head |
| GPT-4.1 mini | $0.400 | $1.60 | 1M | Head to head |
Questions about pricing
- How much does the Cohere Command R API cost in 2026?
- $0.150 per million input tokens and $0.600 per million output tokens, from Cohere's published pricing. The table above converts that into a monthly figure for three common workloads.
- What is the Cohere Command R context window?
- 128K tokens. Filling the window costs whatever that many input tokens cost — at $0.150 per million, a single full-context request runs about $0.02.
- Is Cohere Command R cheaper than the alternatives?
- On a blended 3:1 input-to-output basis it works out at $0.262 per million tokens. The comparison table below ranks it against the other small / fast models in the dataset, and the head-to-head pages model both against identical workloads.