Command R
by Cohere
At a glance
Cohere's open-weight LLM family optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and tool use; succeeded by Command A as Cohere's flagship.
open-weights llm rag
- Licence
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Category
- Open Models
- Business model
- Open (open weights/source)
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2024-03
Overview
Command R is Cohere's family of large language models optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and tool use, spanning Command R, the smaller Command R7B, and the larger Command R+. The models emphasize grounded answers with citations and multilingual enterprise workloads, and their weights are openly available for non-commercial research. Commercial use runs through Cohere's paid API; Command A has since succeeded the family as Cohere's flagship.
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Key features
- Optimized for retrieval-augmented generation with citations
- Tool use and multi-step function calling
- Multilingual coverage for enterprise use
- Open weights available for non-commercial research
Use cases
- Enterprise RAG assistants grounded in company documents
- Building agents that call external tools and APIs
- Research on open-weight instruction-tuned models
Pricing
Model weights are free for non-commercial research under a CC-BY-NC license; commercial access is via Cohere's usage-priced API and enterprise deployments.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-09
- Model family
- Command R
- Pricing
- cohere.com ↗
- Documentation
- docs.cohere.com ↗
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- CA
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/command-r/
Selection profile
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Selection profile11 fields3 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself Questions over your own documents
Derived from the record: category "open-models" plus explicit tags.
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- Model weights
Derived from record tag matching /^open-weights$/.
Suggest a correction - Runs on
- Not recorded
No platform support is stated in the record.
Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Local machine
Open-weight models are run by the user, not served by the vendor.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Partly
Local execution implies the model can run without a network once downloaded, but the vendor does not state this in the record.
Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
Mirrors the availability field already on the record ("global").
Suggest a correction - Public API
- Yes
Demoted 2026-10-09: the text that matched on https://docs.cohere.com/ was documentation navigation (““Ask AI DASHBOARD PLAYGROUND DOCS COMMUNITY LOG IN Guides and concepts API Reference Relea…”), not a statement about this product. Re-promote only with a body-text quote naming the product and the API surface.
Suggest a correction - Licence
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
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Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
No licence terms recorded, so commercial use cannot be asserted.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
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Suggest a correction - Billing
- Open source Free Free allowance: Yes Subscription required: No
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Our inference
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
What is Command R optimized for?
Command R models are optimized for retrieval-augmented generation, grounded citations, and tool use in enterprise settings.
Are Command R weights open?
Yes, weights for Command R and R+ are published for non-commercial research; commercial use requires Cohere's API or licensing.
Is Command R still Cohere's flagship?
No. Cohere's newer Command A family has succeeded Command R as its flagship model line.
What does Command R not record?
The pages fetched leave pricing, service regions and supported languages without a supporting statement, and record no deployment detail; the licence is stated as CC-BY-NC-4.0.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.
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