Cohere
Command Light token cost
Legacy Command Light rates for simple classification and short completions at low unit cost.
Published list rates
Input
$0.3
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.6
per 1M tokens
Context window
4,096
tokens
Pricing source: Cohere pricing
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Project monthly volume
Daily requests × tokens per request × 30 days.
Estimated cost
- Estimated tokens
- 100,000
- Characters
- 400,000
- Words
- 75,000
- Input tokens
- 70,000
- Output tokens
- 30,000
- Input cost
- $0.021
- Output cost
- $0.018
- Total cost
- $0.039
- Combined price per 1M tokens
- $0.39
- Estimated monthly cost
- $23.40
- Estimated daily cost
- $0.78
Cost as volume grows
What Command Light costs if you only send tokens, only get a reply, or do both (70% in / 30% out). Rows start small and go up to huge traffic.
| Tokens | Input only | Output only | Mix (70% in / 30% out) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.0000003 | $0.0000006 | $0.00000039 |
| 10 | $0.000003 | $0.000006 | $0.000004 |
| 100 | $0.00003 | $0.00006 | $0.000039 |
| 200 | $0.00006 | $0.00012 | $0.000078 |
| 300 | $0.00009 | $0.00018 | $0.000117 |
| 400 | $0.00012 | $0.00024 | $0.000156 |
| 500 | $0.00015 | $0.0003 | $0.000195 |
| 1,000 | $0.0003 | $0.0006 | $0.00039 |
| 2,000 | $0.0006 | $0.0012 | $0.00078 |
| 5,000 | $0.0015 | $0.003 | $0.00195 |
| 10,000 | $0.003 | $0.006 | $0.0039 |
| 25,000 | $0.0075 | $0.015 | $0.00975 |
| 50,000 | $0.015 | $0.03 | $0.0195 |
| 100,000 | $0.03 | $0.06 | $0.039 |
| 250,000 | $0.075 | $0.15 | $0.0975 |
| 500,000 | $0.15 | $0.3 | $0.195 |
| 1,000,000 | $0.3 | $0.6 | $0.39 |
| 5,000,000 | $1.50 | $3.00 | $1.95 |
| 10,000,000 | $3.00 | $6.00 | $3.90 |
| 50,000,000 | $15.00 | $30.00 | $19.50 |
| 100,000,000 | $30.00 | $60.00 | $39.00 |
| 500,000,000 | $150.00 | $300.00 | $195.00 |
| 1,000,000,000 | $300.00 | $600.00 | $390.00 |
| 10,000,000,000 | $3,000.00 | $6,000.00 | $3,900.00 |
| 100,000,000,000 | $30,000.00 | $60,000.00 | $39,000.00 |
Tokens for a fixed budget
If you cap spend, this is roughly how many Command Light tokens that money buys.
| Budget | Input tokens | Output tokens | Mixed tokens (70/30) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | 33,333 | 16,667 | 25,641 |
| $0.1 | 333,333 | 166,667 | 256,410 |
| $0.5 | 1.67M | 833,333 | 1.28M |
| $1.00 | 3.33M | 1.67M | 2.56M |
| $5.00 | 16.7M | 8.33M | 12.8M |
| $10.00 | 33.3M | 16.7M | 25.6M |
| $20.00 | 66.7M | 33.3M | 51.3M |
| $25.00 | 83.3M | 41.7M | 64.1M |
| $30.00 | 100M | 50M | 76.9M |
| $50.00 | 166.7M | 83.3M | 128.2M |
| $100.00 | 333.3M | 166.7M | 256.4M |
| $250.00 | 833.3M | 416.7M | 641M |
| $500.00 | 1.67B | 833.3M | 1.28B |
| $1,000.00 | 3.33B | 1.67B | 2.56B |
| $5,000.00 | 16.7B | 8.33B | 12.8B |
| $10,000.00 | 33.3B | 16.7B | 25.6B |
At these rates
- A workload with 70% input and 30% output costs $0.39 per 1 million total tokens and $39.00 per 100 million.
- At the same token count, output costs 2 times the input rate. Response length therefore deserves its own budget limit.
- Filling the 4,096-token context window with input alone would cost about $0.001229, before any output.
These figures use public list prices. Cache eligibility, batch or priority modes, long-context surcharges, discounts, and regional billing can change the invoice.