cohere · Balanced
Cohere: Command R+
104B parameter model that performs conversational language tasks at a higher quality, more reliably, and with a longer context than previous models. It can be used for complex workflows like code generation, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), tool use, and agents
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Balanced
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.86
- Output
- $14.25
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 128K
- Max output
- 4.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 146 tokens
- Longer than 15% of 468 models
Side by side
Cohere: Command R+ compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Cohere: Command R+cohereThis model | Ministral 8BMistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | cohere | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Balanced | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Dec 4, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 128K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 4.1K | 32.77KBest |
| Average output | 146 tokens | 40 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.86 | $0.15Best |
| Output | $14.25 | $0.15Best |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | — | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 5.3 | 5.5Best |
| Coding Index | — | 9.7 |
| Math Index | — | 31.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Cohere: Command R+
- Ministral 8B
Intelligence Index
- Cohere: Command R+5.3
- Ministral 8B5.5
Cohere: Command R+: Better than 1% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 9.7
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 31.7
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 0.5%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 0.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 77 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 213 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 0.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 25.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 0.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Cohere: Command R+: 4.6%Top
- Ministral 8B: 4.3%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Cohere: Command R+: 32.3%
- Ministral 8B: 47.1%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Cohere: Command R+: 43.2%
- Ministral 8B: 64.2%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 29.1%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 0.0%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 20.7%
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Cohere: Command R+: 12.2%
- Ministral 8B: 30.3%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 31.7%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Cohere: Command R+: 0.7%
- Ministral 8B: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Cohere: Command R+: 27.9%
- Ministral 8B: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 4.5%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 26.6%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Cohere: Command R+: —
- Ministral 8B: 25.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "cohere/command-r-plus-08-2024",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="cohere/command-r-plus-08-2024",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)cohere
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