Command R7B is the smallest model in Cohere’s R series, released in December 2024 as what the company called the final entry in that lineup. At 7 billion parameters it is built to run on cheap hardware, including CPUs and single GPUs, while still handling retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and reasoning tasks that Cohere’s larger models were designed for. It topped the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard among similarly sized open-weight models at launch, beating Gemma 2 9B, Ministral 8B, and Llama 3.1 8B on average across benchmarks including MMLU, IFEval, and GPQA. The model keeps the same 128,000-token context window as its bigger siblings and is priced far below them, making it a fit for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications rather than frontier-level tasks.