Aya 23 35BvsCommand R+
Cohere vs Cohere — Side-by-side model comparison
Head-to-Head Comparison
| Metric | Aya 23 35B | Command R+ |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Arena Rank | — | #17 |
| Context Window | 8K | 128K |
| Input Pricing | Free (open)/1M tokens | $2.50/1M tokens |
| Output Pricing | Free (open)/1M tokens | $10.00/1M tokens |
| Parameters | 35B | 104B |
| Open Source | Yes | Yes |
| Best For | Multilingual tasks, low-resource languages | RAG, enterprise search, multilingual |
| Release Date | May 23, 2024 | Apr 4, 2024 |
Aya 23 35B
Aya 23 35B is Cohere's open-source multilingual model supporting 23 languages, with particular strength in underserved and low-resource languages. Developed through a massive community research effort involving thousands of contributors worldwide, Aya represents a democratizing force in AI, ensuring language model capabilities extend beyond English and a handful of high-resource languages.
View Cohere profile →Command R+
Command R+ is Cohere's most capable model, specifically optimized for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise search applications. With 104 billion parameters and a 128K context window, it excels at grounding responses in provided documents, reducing hallucinations, and citing sources accurately. It supports 10 languages natively and is designed for enterprise deployments that require reliable, grounded AI responses.
View Cohere profile →Key Differences: Aya 23 35B vs Command R+
Command R+ supports a larger context window (128K), allowing it to process longer documents in a single request.
Aya 23 35B has 35B parameters vs Command R+'s 104B, which affects inference speed and capability.
When to use Aya 23 35B
- +Your use case involves multilingual tasks, low-resource languages
When to use Command R+
- +You need to process long documents (128K context)
- +Your use case involves rag, enterprise search, multilingual
The Verdict
Command R+ wins our head-to-head comparison with 5 out of 5 category wins. It's the stronger choice for rag, enterprise search, multilingual, though Aya 23 35B holds an edge in multilingual tasks, low-resource languages.
Last compared: March 2026 · Data sourced from public benchmarks and official pricing pages