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OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALWRITING HELPOFFICE WORK
RANKED #79 OF 228 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #133 OF 6,618 · VIBE SCORE 6.1 · 306 VOICES
A text-generating AI model designed to help with writing tasks and everyday office work.
HAPPY8.8
22 mentions
SAD6.2
17 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 78 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Command R once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
35B parameters, a Q4 file is about 21 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB)
16 GB VRAM (PLUS 32 GB SYSTEM RAM FOR OF
~$370 USEDQ3_K_S, ~6 tok/s (with partial CPU offloading), 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB)
24 GB VRAM
~$750 USEDQ4_K_M, ~20 tok/s (fully in VRAM), 16k context
- FULL POWER
Mac Studio M2 Ultra (128GB Unified Memory)
128 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$3,200 USEDFP16 (unquantized) or Q8, ~25 tok/s, full 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
WILL MY BOX RUN COMMAND R?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Command R takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (16GB) | SWEET SPOTNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 (24GB) | FULL POWERMac Studio M2 Ultra (128GB Unified Memory) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~83 S★★★★★ | ~25 S★★★★★ | ~20 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~4.2 MIN★★★★★ | ~75 S★★★★★ | ~60 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~22 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.7 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.3 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~69 MIN★★★★★ | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~17 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~42 MIN★★★★★ | ~13 MIN★★★★★ | ~10 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Community feedback on Command R is limited, with no major highlights recorded. The main complaint is that it tends to refuse requests or give lectures more often than users prefer.
53 POSTS · 253 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- No fan mail yet. The crowd is still warming up.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (3 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 3 thumbs down
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