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Command R models: Versions, specs, GPU requirements & hosting

Cohere Command R combines retrieval-oriented language generation with long-context enterprise deployment and tool-use workflows.

Technical deployment reference illustration for Command R
Reference deployment flow; exact architecture facts are listed separately.

Overview and history

Command R is an official Cohere model family represented here through independently verified release, checkpoint, license, runtime and hardware evidence. Cohere Command R combines retrieval-oriented language generation with long-context enterprise deployment and tool-use workflows. Current public releases are grouped by the General tracks so sibling sizes and specialist branches are not presented as false chronological generations.

FusionPointAI currently tracks 1 certified public Command R releases. The catalogue preserves release dates and evaluates Current, Recent, Previous and Legacy status within each model track rather than by database insertion order.

Retrieval-augmented generation
Enterprise context handling
Tool-use workflows

Architecture and model range

The verified public range spans 104B to 104B total parameters and context windows up to 131,072 tokens. Each release states whether it is dense or mixture-of-experts and records active parameters separately when the official source publishes them.

Public releases1
Model tracks1
Current generationCommand R+ 08-2024
Last verified2026-09-03T00:00:00.000000Z

Deployment ecosystem

Choose a specific Command R release and certified checkpoint before sizing hardware. FusionPointAI rejects unknown runtime configurations, calculates resident memory from total model weights, then distinguishes globally compatible GPUs from currently rentable inventory.

Validate the exact checkpoint license, runtime version, precision kernel, context length, concurrency and multi-GPU topology. Active MoE parameters affect compute, but resident model memory continues to use total stored weights.

Common use cases

Knowledge assistants
Grounded generation
Enterprise search

License overview

Licenses are certified per release, not inferred from the provider. Review the release page before commercial deployment because terms can differ between generations and variants.

Commercial-use status is a source-backed catalogue classification, not legal advice. Follow the linked official license and attribution requirements.

Release timeline

cohere/command-r/command-r-plus-08-2024

Source details

Official source

Source revision: 1d9d26ce6590897b386afb159183de95786a02e068154b4c0498fee72267fc66

Frequently asked questions

Which Command R release is current?

Current releases are The manufacturer has not published this information., evaluated within their respective tracks.

Can Command R be self-hosted?

Only releases with a verified official checkpoint and supported runtime configuration are presented as deployable.

Which GPU should run Command R?

GPU selection depends on the exact variant, checkpoint precision, context length and concurrency; use the release hardware recommendations rather than the family name alone.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-03