Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between Cohere's Command R (08-2024) and DeepSeek's DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias).
• Command R (08-2024): Classified as a Legacy Reference model (Tracked Production / Legacy Family).
• DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias): Classified as a Legacy Reference model (Legacy Reference (API Aliased)).
| Metric | Command R (08-2024) | DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias) | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | Cohere | DeepSeek | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $0.15 | $0.14 | DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias) (7% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.015 | $0.014 | DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias) lower |
| Output / 1M | $0.60 | $0.28 | DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias) lower |
| Context Window | 128k | 128k | Equal |
| Max Generation Tokens | 4.1k | 8.2k | DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias) |
| Tokenizer Family | Cohere BPE (~256k vocabulary) | DeepSeek Byte-level BPE (~128k vocabulary) | — |
Opt for Command R (08-2024) when your engineering requirements prioritize Cohere's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated Cohere Tokenizer (±3%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $0.15/M input rate.
Opt for DeepSeek-V3 (Legacy API Alias) when looking for DeepSeek's tooling integration, specific context window depth (128k tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $0.28/M rate.