Command Light
Deprecated 2025-09-15 and now strictly dominated by Command R7B, which is 8x cheaper on input with a 32x larger context window.
Data checked 2026-09-06
Cohere
deprecated
command-light
- Context window
- 4K tokens in
- Max output
- 4K tokens out
- Input
- $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.60 per 1M tokens
- Blended
- $0.38 3:1 in:out
- Licence
- proprietary
A What it is for
At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, Command Light costs $0.38 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $14.94 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.
B Capabilities
streaming
| Input modalities | text |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | text |
C Others from Cohere
| Model | Context | Max out | In $/M | Out $/M | Blended | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Command A+
command-a-plus-05-2026
|
128K | 64K | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ga open |
Command A
command-a-03-2025
|
256K | 8K | — | — | — | ga open |
Command A Reasoning
command-a-reasoning-08-2025
|
256K | 32K | — | — | — | ga open |
Command A Translate
command-a-translate-08-2025
|
8K | 8K | — | — | — | ga open |
Command A Vision
command-a-vision-07-2025
|
128K | 8K | — | — | — | ga open |
Command R+ (08-2024)
command-r-plus-08-2024
|
128K | 4K | $2.50 | $10.00 | $4.38 | ga open |
Command R (08-2024)
command-r-08-2024
|
128K | 4K | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.26 | ga open |
Command R7B
command-r7b-12-2024
|
128K | 4K | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.07 | ga open |
Command R (03-2024)
command-r-03-2024
|
128K | 4K | $0.50 | $1.50 | $0.75 | deprecated open |
Command R+ (04-2024)
command-r-plus-04-2024
|
128K | 4K | $3.00 | $15.00 | $6.00 | deprecated open |
Command
command
|
4K | 4K | $1.00 | $2.00 | $1.25 | deprecated |
| North Mini Code 1.0 | — | — | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | ga open |
D Verify before you commit
Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.
Source: cohere.com · checked 2026-09-06 · Cohere pricing · API docs