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Claude Sonnet 5 vs Command R7B (12-2024)

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Sonnet 5 costs 59× as much as Command R7B (12-2024): $8.00 against $0.135 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Sonnet 5Command R7B (12-2024)
Input, per 1M tokens$2.00$0.0375
Output, per 1M tokens$10.00$0.15
Context window1M128K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$1.30$0.024
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$8.00$0.135
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$21.00$0.375
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesno
BANKING77, correct of 400308not measured

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Command R7B (12-2024) answers your requests as well as Claude Sonnet 5, moving that traffic saves 98% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Command R7B (12-2024) does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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