Command R
Command R is Cohere’s 35B-parameter multilingual language model for retrieval-augmented generation and tool-driven enterprise workflows. It generates answers with document citations and can interact with external services through tool calls. The original March 2024 weights and an August 2024 update are grouped here as releases of the same named model. The family supports a 128K context and ten primary languages, with downloadable research weights and commercial hosted access. The original command-r alias was deprecated in September 2025; the August 2024 checkpoint remains listed as live in the current API catalog.
2024-03-11
35B
Dense autoregressive Transformer
CC-BY-NC-4.0 with acceptable-use addendum
Specifications
- Parameters
- 35B
- Architecture
- Dense autoregressive Transformer
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 with acceptable-use addendum
- Context Window
- 128,000 tokens
- Max Output
- 4,000 tokens
- Type
- text
- Modalities
- text
Benchmark Scores
Advanced Specifications
- Model Family
- Command
- API Access
- Available
- Chat Interface
- Available
- Multilingual Support
- Yes
- Variants
- c4ai-command-r-v01 / command-r-03-2024c4ai-command-r-08-2024 / command-r-08-2024
Capabilities & Limitations
- Capabilities
- retrieval augmented generationcitationstool usemultilingualcode
- Known Limitations
- Downloaded weights are licensed for non-commercial use; commercial deployments require separate terms.Grounded answers depend on supplied documents and can still contain unsupported statements.Use command-r-08-2024 for current hosted access; the original alias is deprecated.
- Notable Use Cases
- document question answeringenterprise agentsmultilingual assistants
- Function Calling Support
- Yes
- Tool Use Support
- Yes