Cohere API Cost Calculator
Estimate Cohere Command A, R+ and R API costs.
With the default inputs, $0.00750 per request — ~$225.00/month at 1,000 requests/day. Enter your own numbers below to recompute instantly; the full step-by-step math is shown under the worked example.
Results update automatically as you type.
- Input cost
- $0.00250
- Output cost
- $0.00500
- Per request
- $0.00750
- Per day
- $7.50
- Per month
- $225.00
Estimate the cost of Cohere's Command models. Command R7B and R are inexpensive for high-volume tasks, while Command A targets enterprise agentic workloads.
How this is calculated
Cost per request = (input tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × input price) + (output tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × output price) for your chosen Command model, from our daily-refreshed pricing. Monthly cost scales the per-request figure by requests per day × 30.
Is this a good result? What to do next
Command R7B and R are inexpensive for high-volume classification, search and RAG, while Command A is the enterprise flagship for agentic and tool-using workloads with a large context window. Pick R-tier for volume and reserve A for genuinely agentic work.
Typical planning ranges
- Command R7B
- budget, high-volume
- Command R
- mid-tier RAG/search
- Command A
- enterprise agentic flagship
Ranges are typical planning figures to sanity-check your result, not authoritative benchmarks. Your numbers will vary with use case, volume, and vendor.
How to improve this number
- Use R7B/R for retrieval and classification volume.
- Reserve Command A for agentic, tool-heavy tasks.
- Trim output and cache stable context.
Common mistakes
- Using Command A for simple, high-volume tasks.
- Ignoring that output is priced above input.
When to use a different approach
To rank Cohere against other providers, use the model cost comparison. For retrieval workloads, use the RAG cost calculator.
Worked example (defaults)
With the default inputs above, here is the result:
- Input cost
- $0.00250
- Output cost
- $0.00500
- Per request
- $0.00750
- Per day
- $7.50
- Per month
- $225.00
- input: 1,000 / 1e6 x $2.5/M = $0.00250
- output: 500 / 1e6 x $10/M = $0.00500
- monthly = $0.00750 x 1,000 x 30 days
Sources & references
Frequently asked questions
What is Command A best for?+
Command A is Cohere's enterprise flagship for agentic and RAG workflows, with a 256K context window and tool use.
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