How much does Command R (08-2024) cost?

Billing is usage-based: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.

How do I access Command R (08-2024) from inside Iran?

Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Command R (08-2024) is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.

Is Command R (08-2024) compatible with the OpenAI SDK?

Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.

What context window does Command R (08-2024) support?

Command R (08-2024) supports a context window of up to 128K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.

Is Command R (08-2024) good for RAG?

Yes. This update specifically improved multilingual retrieval-augmented generation and tool use. Combined with its 128K context window, it is well suited to grounded question answering over your own document sets.

Does Command R (08-2024) support tool calling?

Yes. It supports tool/function calling and structured output, so you can build agent-style workflows that call external functions and return typed results.

Cohere: Command R (08-2024): AI model

Command R (08-2024) is Cohere's updated model for multilingual RAG and tool use, with a 128K context window. Served from inside Iran through Hormouz.

Context window:: 128,000 tokens
Input:: $0.15/1M tokens
Output:: $0.6/1M tokens
Type:: text

Tools
Streaming
Long context

Command R (08-2024) is an updated release of Cohere's Command R with improved multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool use. It is also stronger at math, code and reasoning, and is competitive with the earlier, larger Command R+.

It supports a 128K-token context window and tool calling, which makes it a practical choice for grounded question answering over your own documents, multilingual assistants and agent-style workflows that need to call external functions. It is a text-only model with structured-output support.

On Hormouz, Command R is served behind an OpenAI-compatible API and reachable from inside Iran without a foreign card. Billing is usage-based at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, which keeps RAG-heavy workloads affordable.

command-r-08-2024 is an update of the Command R with improved performance for multilingual retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and tool use. More broadly, it is better at math, code and reasoning and...

Quickstart

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "cohere/command-r-08-2024",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Specs

Vendor	Cohere
Type	Text
Context window	128,000 tokens
Pricing	$0.15/M in · $0.60/M out
API	Chat Completions
Capabilities	Streaming · Tools

Code example

cURL

curl https://api.hormouz.net/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ng-YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "cohere/command-r-08-2024",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

Python

from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="ng-YOUR_API_KEY", base_url="https://api.hormouz.net/v1")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="cohere/command-r-08-2024",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

JavaScript

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({ apiKey: "ng-YOUR_API_KEY", baseURL: "https://api.hormouz.net/v1" });
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "cohere/command-r-08-2024",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

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FAQ

How much does Command R (08-2024) cost?: Billing is usage-based: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens. There is no monthly minimum. You pay only for the tokens you actually use.
How do I access Command R (08-2024) from inside Iran?: Create a Hormouz account, generate an API key and point your client at Hormouz. Access to Command R (08-2024) is served from inside Iran, so you do not need a foreign credit card, a VPN or any sanction-circumvention tooling.
Is Command R (08-2024) compatible with the OpenAI SDK?: Yes. Hormouz exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat-completions API. Change the base URL to Hormouz and drop in your Hormouz key, and existing OpenAI SDK code runs unchanged.
What context window does Command R (08-2024) support?: Command R (08-2024) supports a context window of up to 128K tokens, which is enough for long documents and extended conversations in a single request.
Is Command R (08-2024) good for RAG?: Yes. This update specifically improved multilingual retrieval-augmented generation and tool use. Combined with its 128K context window, it is well suited to grounded question answering over your own document sets.
Does Command R (08-2024) support tool calling?: Yes. It supports tool/function calling and structured output, so you can build agent-style workflows that call external functions and return typed results.

Updated 2026-10-13