Plain-English Summary
A compact Cohere model for efficient enterprise retrieval, chat, and tool use.
Command R7B
A compact Cohere model for efficient enterprise retrieval, chat, and tool use.
Command R
General LLM
GA
Open weights: Model-specific
API: Yes
Technical Notes
7B-class text model with 128K context, 4K output, RAG grounding, and tool calling.
Best For
Cost-efficient RAG, support bots, extraction, private deployments
Watch Out For
Lower reasoning and writing quality than Command A models.
Model Specs
- Maker
- Cohere
- Country
- Canada
- Family
- Command R
- Type
- General LLM
- Release date
- 2024-12-01
- Date confidence
- Month / model ID
- Status
- GA
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 4,096
- Parameters
- 7B
- Active parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Dense transformer
- Reasoning
- Basic / general
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- Yes
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- Model-specific
- Self-hostable
- Yes / deployment dependent
- License
- Check model card
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Approx. price
- See provider pricing
- How to access
- Provider website or API
- Model / API ID
- command-r7b-12-2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not publicly disclosed
- Fine-tuning
- Fine-tuning, RAG, private deployment
- Completeness
- 100 %
- Verified
- Jul 18, 2026
- Snapshot date
- Jul 18, 2026
- Source
- Official source