Model

Command R

OPEN

Cohere · Command R family · released Mar 11, 2024

35B RAG/tool-use model with 128K context; first open-weights (CC-BY-NC) Command release, later superseded by the 08-2024 refresh.

ReasoningCodingVisionFunction callingTool useAgentic

462.5

Elo · rank #316

Parameters

35B

Active params

35B (dense)

Context

128K tokens

Architecture

Dense transformer (35B), optimized for RAG and multi-step tool use

License

CC-BY-NC-4.0 (+ Acceptable Use Policy)

Languages

10+

API price (in/out)

$0.5 / $1.5

Modalities

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Benchmark results

Bar shows position within the tracked field; marker = field best

ARC-ChallengeReasoning65.5%#62

best: Llama 3.1 405B · 96.9%

BIG-Bench HardReasoning53.5%#90

best: ERNIE 4.5 300B-A47B · 94.3%

GPQA DiamondReasoning30.3%#263

best: GPT-5.6 · 94.6%

GSM8KMath56.6%#122

best: Llama 3.1 405B · 96.8%

HellaSwagReasoning87.0%#20

best: Claude 3 Opus · 95.4%

IFEvalReasoning62.7%#119

best: Gemma 4 26B A4B · 98.5%

MMLU (EU-21 languages)Knowledge56.1%#7

best: Llama 3.1 70B · 77.1%

MMLU-ProKnowledge33.7%#161

best: Claude Fable 5 · 91.5%

MMLUKnowledge68.2%#158

best: OpenAI o3 · 92.9%

TruthfulQAKnowledge52.3%#48

best: Phi-3.5-MoE (16x3.8B, 6.6B active) · 77.5%

WinoGrandeReasoning81.5%#26

best: PaLM 2 · 90.9%

Run it locally

VRAM @ Q4

21.6 GB

VRAM @ FP16

70 GB

Fits on (Q4)

RTX 3090 24GBRTX 4090 24GBRTX 5090 32GBM4 Pro 48GBM3 Max 128GBM3 Ultra 512GBA100 80GBH100 80GBH200 141GBB200 192GB

Throughput data unavailable.

Quantizations

GGUF Q4

Command R family

Elo progression across releases

Command RMar 2024462.5 Command R7BDec 2024519.3

Resources

HFCohereLabs/c4ai-command-r-v01 DOCSdocs.cohere.com APIAvailable via Cohere API

API price $0.5/$1.5 · each benchmark row carries its own source badge (see methodology)