Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between Cohere's Command R+ (08-2024) and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.
| Metric | Command R+ (08-2024) | Claude Sonnet 5 | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | Cohere | Anthropic | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $2.50 | $2.00 | Claude Sonnet 5 (20% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.25 | $0.20 | Claude Sonnet 5 lower |
| Output / 1M | $10.00 | $10.00 | Identical |
| Context Window | 128k | 1M | Claude Sonnet 5 (1M) |
| Max Generation Tokens | 4.1k | 16.4k | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Tokenizer Family | Cohere BPE (~256k vocabulary) | Anthropic Claude BPE (~65k 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 $2.5/M input rate.
Opt for Claude Sonnet 5 when looking for Anthropic's tooling integration, specific context window depth (1M tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $10/M rate.