Side-by-side comparison of Command R+ (Cohere · Canada) and Qwen 3.5 (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Command R+ is rated conditional; Qwen 3.5 is conditional. They part ways on licence: Command R+ is "CC-BY-NC 4.0", Qwen 3.5 is "Apache 2.0".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Enterprise-focused 104B model, strong at RAG and multilingual tool use. Weights are released under CC-BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial only. Commercial deployment goes through Cohere's API (see Cohere API entry). | Conditional Hybrid Gated-DeltaNet + MoE flagship (397B total, 17B active) under Apache 2.0. Native vision, 201 languages, 262K context (1M with YaRN). Licence is clean; Chinese-origin alignment and supply-chain considerations persist. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | CC-BY-NC 4.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | API only | Yes |
| Training data | Partial | Undisclosed |
| Origin | Canada | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 40/100 |
| Speed | — | 53 tok/s |
| Blended price | $6.00/M | $1.35/M |
| Context window | — | — |
| Evidence | ||
| Sources | ||
No overlapping sources between the two entries.