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Command

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Command is Cohere’s original instruction-following language model, first released as the command-xlarge public beta in November 2022. It introduced a generation interface conditioned on direct commands for summarization, rewriting, extraction, and question answering. The family later added the smaller Command Light tier, conversational improvements, and document-grounded Chat access. Its final documented API configuration supported a 4K context. This historical page groups the original Command, Command Light, renamed aliases, and routine nightly updates; it does not duplicate the later Command R or A families. Cohere deprecated the original hosted models in September 2025.

2022-11-08
Unreleased
Undisclosed proprietary architecture
Proprietary

Specifications

Parameters
Unreleased
Architecture
Undisclosed proprietary architecture
License
Proprietary
Context Window
4,000 tokens
Max Output
4,000 tokens
Type
text
Modalities
text

Benchmark Scores

Advanced Specifications

Model Family
Command
API Access
Not Available
Chat Interface
Not Available
Multilingual Support
No
Variants
command-xlarge-20221108command-xlarge / commandcommand-medium / command-lightcommand-nightlycommand-light-nightly

Capabilities & Limitations

Capabilities
instruction followingsummarizationrewritingdocument-grounded generation
Known Limitations
Original Command and Command Light API models were deprecated September 15, 2025.Weights and internal architecture were not publicly released.Final 4K context limits apply to the later hosted family configuration.
Notable Use Cases
historical API researchtext transformationdocument assistants

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