Command R7B (12-2024)
About this model
Command R7B (12-2024) is an AI model from Cohere, made available through the API on December 14, 2024. It can read up to 128,000 tokens in one request, roughly 240 pages of text, and write up to 4,000 tokens in a single answer.
Through the API it costs $0.038 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens. Its pricing puts it among the more affordable models we track, which makes it a good fit for high-volume tasks.
Quality scores
Rankings →Not rated yet. Independent test results usually appear a few weeks after a model is released.
Where to use it
Companies that serve this model through an API: 1. Prices per million tokens, cheapest first.
Availability and prices come from OpenRouter’s public API and are refreshed daily. Uptime is the share of successful requests over the last 24 hours. Some providers run a compressed version of open models (fp8, int4), which is cheaper but can be slightly less accurate.
Use it in your code
Call Command R7B (12-2024) through OpenRouter’s OpenAI-compatible API: create a key on openrouter.ai, then run one of these examples.
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "cohere/command-r7b-12-2024", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}]}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OPENROUTER_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="cohere/command-r7b-12-2024",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello! What can you do?"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1", apiKey: process.env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY });
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "cohere/command-r7b-12-2024",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! What can you do?" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);The same code works with every model on this site: only the model ID changes. Many labs also offer their own API and SDK.
What it costs in practice
- 1,000 chat replies$0.064
- Summarise a 100-page document$0.002
- An app with 10,000 requests a day for a month$29.25
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News about Cohere
See all →Frequently asked questions
- How much does Command R7B (12-2024) cost?
- Command R7B (12-2024) costs $0.038 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens through the API. For example, 1,000 chat replies of about 500 tokens in and 300 out cost around $0.064.
- What is the context window of Command R7B (12-2024)?
- Command R7B (12-2024) can read up to 128,000 tokens in one request, about 240 pages of text. It can write up to 4,000 tokens in a single answer.
- Is Command R7B (12-2024) open source?
- No. Command R7B (12-2024) is a closed model: its weights are not published, so you use it through Cohere’s own apps and API, or through cloud providers.
- Who makes Command R7B (12-2024)?
- Command R7B (12-2024) is made by Cohere. It became available through the API on December 14, 2024.
- Can Command R7B (12-2024) read images?
- No. Command R7B (12-2024) only accepts text as input.
- What are the alternatives to Command R7B (12-2024)?
- Models with a similar price from other companies include gpt-oss-120b, Mercury 2.5 and Hy-MT2-1.8B. You can compare them side by side on this page.