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Small & Fast Cohere Models

Quick answer · Updated June 2026

The small, fast Cohere model is Command R7B (12-2024) — the efficient tier at 58 tokens/sec and $0.037 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.

58 t/sSpeed
$0.037Input /M
128KContext

Compact, efficient models — the small/mini/flash/haiku tier — ranked by output speed. These trade a little raw intelligence for low cost and high throughput, which is the right tradeoff for chat, classification, extraction and other high-volume work.

  1. 1C
    command-r7b-12-2024
    JSON$0.037/M · 221ms ttft · 128K ctx
    58 t/s
    Speed

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What is the smallest, fastest Cohere model?

The small, fast Cohere model is Command R7B (12-2024) — the efficient tier at 58 tokens/sec and $0.037 per million input tokens. It trades a few points of raw intelligence for speed and cost, the right call for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.

How many Cohere models are there?

modelgrep tracks 4 Cohere models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing. 1 of them qualify for this ranking.

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