Command R
by Cohere · cohere.com ↗
Cohere's open-weight LLM family optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and tool use; succeeded by Command A as Cohere's flagship.
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- Category
- Open Models
- Business model
- Open (open weights/source)
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2024-03
- Record updated
- 2026-07-30
- Model family
- Command R
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0
- Documentation
- docs.cohere.com ↗
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- CA
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/command-r/
Overview
Command R is Cohere's family of large language models optimized for retrieval-augmented generation and tool use, spanning Command R 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.
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.
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.
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- DBRX — Open-weight mixture-of-experts LLM released by Databricks in 2024; retired from Databricks serving in 2025, though the weights remain available.
- DeepSeek — Open-weight LLM family and chat assistant from Hangzhou-based DeepSeek, known for strong reasoning models. The official DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 API brings a major agent-capability upgrade via post-training, with native Responses API support and Codex adaptation.
- Falcon — Family of open-weight large language models developed by the Technology Innovation Institute (TII).
- Gemma — Google's family of lightweight open-weight models derived from the same research as Gemini.
- GLM — Family of open-weight large language models from Zhipu AI, spanning general, reasoning, and coding-focused variants.
Sources
This record was last reviewed on 2026-07-30.
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