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Command R+ 08-2024: Specs, GPU Requirements and License

Command R+ 08-2024 is a legacy General release in the Command R family, certified from its immutable official source revision.

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Technical deployment reference illustration for Command R+ 08-2024
Reference deployment flow; exact architecture facts are listed separately.
Total parameters104.0B
Active parametersDense model
Context window131,072 tokens
Release statusLegacy · Legacy
ArchitectureDense Transformer
ModalitiesText
Licensecc-by-nc-4.0
Deployment stateDeployable with certified configuration
Commercial stateUnknown / Not Recommendable
Release date2024-08-21

Architecture, strengths and use cases

Command R+ 08-2024 is an official self-hostable Cohere release in the Command R General track. It uses Dense Transformer, carries 104B, supports a verified context window of 131,072 tokens, and exposes only source-certified checkpoints and runtime combinations. Its release, license and deployment facts are tied to the official repository revision rather than inferred from the family name.

Command R+ 08-2024 uses Dense Transformer with 104B. The stored architecture profile records 64 layers, hidden width 8192, 64 attention heads and a 131,072 token context ceiling where the official configuration publishes those fields.

Verified Dense Transformer architecture
131,072 token certified context
Official FP16 checkpoint coverage
Private LLM inference
Agentic workflows
Long-context document processing

Certified checkpoints and quantizations

Only exact, source-certified variants attached to this release are shown.

c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024

CohereLabs/c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024

Official · FP16 · safetensors

Runtime certified: Transformers

Precision / quantizationFormatBitsPublisher trustDeployment state
FP16safetensors16OfficialRuntime certified

Recommended hardware

Use only the listed transformers runtime configuration with the exact checkpoint precision. The recommendation engine checks weight memory, KV cache, runtime overhead, safety headroom, GPU architecture and topology before ranking rentable and reference hardware.

Unknown / Not Recommendable

Commercial rights are not verified, so this release is not commercially recommendable.

License and self-hosting considerations

The full 104B resident weight set must fit across the selected GPUs. Context and concurrency add KV-cache memory; MoE active parameters do not replace resident-weight memory.

Command R+ 08-2024 is published under cc-by-nc-4.0. The release-scoped official license link and verification date are retained with the catalogue record.

Unknown / Not Recommendable. Commercial rights are not verified, so this release is not commercially recommendable.

Release timeline

cohere/command-r/command-r-plus-08-2024 @ 1d9d26ce6590897b386afb159183de95786a02e068154b4c0498fee72267fc66

Official source

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does Command R+ 08-2024 require?

The exact estimate depends on checkpoint precision, context and concurrency; the page recommendation uses the certified memory engine and compatible runtime configurations.

Which runtimes support Command R+ 08-2024?

Certified upstream runtime evidence is available for transformers.

Can Command R+ 08-2024 be used commercially?

The stored commercial classification is Unknown / Not Recommendable. Consult the official cc-by-nc-4.0 terms for the final obligations.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-03