Head-to-head comparison
Command R (08-2024) (Cohere) and Command R+ (08-2024) (Cohere) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 22 September 2026
As of 22 September 2026, Command R+ (08-2024) holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#212 vs #220); and Command R (08-2024) is 16.7× cheaper per output token ($0.60/1M vs $10.00/1M).
Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Command R+ (08-2024) ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026: #212 against #220. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
Command R (08-2024) is cheaper on output tokens: $0.60/1M against $10.00/1M. Input tokens are $0.15/1M for Command R (08-2024) and $2.50/1M for Command R+ (08-2024). Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $0.60 for Command R (08-2024) versus $10.00 for Command R+ (08-2024). Command R (08-2024) costs 94.0% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
Both publish a 128K-token context window.
Arena coding: Command R (08-2024) 1282, Command R+ (08-2024) 1280 — Command R (08-2024) leads.
Command R (08-2024): API only. Command R+ (08-2024): API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Command R (08-2024) and 1 for Command R+ (08-2024), from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 22 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.