Command R7B (12-2024)
Cohere · released Dec 14, 2024
- Type
- Closed
- Input
- $0.037
- Output
- $0.15
- Cached
- None held
List price · per 1M tokens · Cohere at 128K context · source ↗
Our take
Written Sep 30, 2026Command R7B (12-2024) is a hosted-only text model: we list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host. It has been measured, and its strongest result is on following instructions closely, while harder reasoning tasks sit near the bottom of the boards we hold.
Pick it for instruction-following work where the wording of the request matters more than hard reasoning, or for long documents that need not be split up first. Both listed hosts charge the same rate, so the host choice does not change the bill. Skip it if you need graduate-level science or harder multi-task reasoning, or if you meant to run the model on your own machine.
The case for it
- 77.1% instruction-following accuracy on IFEval, 6th of 16 on that board as of 22 Jan 2025, so it is a reasonable pick for work that lives or dies on following the brief.
- The request capacity takes long documents whole, though whether it reliably recalls everything in them is unverified in our data.
- Cohere and OpenRouter both list the same rate, so the host choice does not change the bill.
The case against it
- 30.9% correct on GPQA Diamond, 10th of 16 as of 22 Jan 2025, and 35.7% on MMLU-Pro, 12th of 16 as of 22 Jan 2025 — near the bottom of both boards.
- We list no download for it, so using it means choosing a host and sending your prompts to one.
How good is it?
EverydayGeneral questions and everyday reasoning
Not yet scored on Arena Text (overall). It is on GPQA Diamond, in 10th of 16 with 30.9.
CodingWriting and fixing code on its own
Not yet scored on Arena Coding.
AgenticPlanning, calling tools, staying on task
Not yet scored on Arena Agent.
WritingDrafting and rewriting prose
Not yet scored on Arena Creative Writing.
These tests check whether a model follows instructions — a precondition for all the work above, but not a measure of how well that work is done.
Every published score for this model3 scoresEvery figure we hold, from 3 boards, with who ran it and a link to the source — including the boards no rating above is built on.
Where to rent it
Prices checked 2 hours ago — each listing carries its own date.
Cohere, through OpenRouter
The lab is also the cheapest we hold. The strip above and this offer are the same one, so nothing on this page undercuts Cohere on 128K of context.
- per 1M tokens
- $0.037 in / $0.15 out
- Context served
- 128K
- Throughput
- ~56 tok/s
| Provider | In / out per 1M tokens | Context | Throughput | Trains on prompts | Logs prompts | Zero retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | $0.037 / $0.15checked 2 hours ago | 128K | not measured | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| CohereThrough OpenRouter | $0.037 / $0.15checked 2 hours ago | 128K4K max reply | 56 tok/s | No | Yes30 days | Unknown |
OpenRouterAcross the 2 listings we hold: 1 says it does not train on prompts, 0 say they do and 1 does not say. 0 appear in the zero-retention registry we check; the rest are unknown to us.
What each host's API supports
From the parameter list each endpoint publishes. Streaming is omitted: nothing we hold reports it, for any model.
| Provider | Tool calling | JSON output | Strict schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterOpenRouter's own listing | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CohereThrough OpenRouter | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tool calling: 0 of 2 listings say yes, 2 say no. JSON output: 2 of 2 listings say yes. Strict schema: 2 of 2 listings say yes.
When we formed this view
Recent changes
What moved
first indexed by our pipelineEach date is the day we first saw the change, or the day the maker announced it.
What we do not know about this model yet
- Nothing we hold says whether an endpoint streams, so we do not show it either way.
- 1 of 2 listings does not say whether it trains on prompts.
- We hold no cached-input rate for any of its listings.
- We hold no batch or off-peak rate for any of its listings.
Licence and identifiers
What the licence allowsWe hold no licence record for this model. Inside are the identifiers you need to pull it — its Hugging Face repo where we have one, our slug and a machine-readable card.
Licence
We hold no licence record for this model, and no record of published weights either — so we can neither summarise its terms nor point you at the weights.
Identifiers
- Takes in, gives back
- Text in, text out
- Catalogue slug
- cohere-command-r7b-12-2024