Cohere Command R+ vs DeepSeek V3

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	Cohere Command R+ Cohere's RAG-optimized model with strong tool use + citation grounding.	DeepSeek V3 Open-weights model with strong reasoning at very low inference cost.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	free	free
Strengths	+ Purpose-built for RAG with citation grounding + Multilingual + Enterprise deploy options	+ Open weights + Very low inference cost + Strong reasoning benchmarks
Tradeoffs	− Smaller ecosystem than Claude/OpenAI	− Geopolitical considerations for some enterprises
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