Cohere · Released Mar 13, 2025Command A
Cohere command model for multilingual enterprise agents, tools, and chat.
- Capability
- —No ECI score yet
- Input
- $2.50per 1M tokens
- Output
- $10.00per 1M tokens
- Context
- 256K8K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $2.50per million tokens
- Output
- $10.00per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $4.38pricier than 84% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $10.00 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $112.50 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $1,125 |
Official Cohere API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Command A yet.
The details
- Lab
- Cohere
- Released
- Mar 13, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Jun 1, 2024
- Context window
- 256,000 tokens
- Max output
- 8,000 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- API model ID
command-a-03-2025on Cohere- Availability
- 3 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Cohere claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
| Benchmark | Score | Setting | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12 percent correct | — | Source |
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About Command A
How much does Command A cost?
Command A costs $2.50 input / $10.00 output per million tokens (official Cohere API price). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $4.38 per million tokens, more expensive than 84% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Command A?
Command A accepts up to 256,000 tokens per request and can write up to 8,000 tokens in one response.
How good is Command A?
Epoch AI has not published a Capabilities Index score for Command A yet.
Is Command A open source?
Yes. Cohere publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Command A support?
Command A accepts text and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Command A released?
Cohere released Command A on Mar 13, 2025. Its training data runs to Jun 1, 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Command A?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Step 1 (32K) (StepFun, $2.05 / $9.59), Sonar Deep Research (Perplexity, $2.00 / $8.00), Qwen-MT Plus (Alibaba (Qwen), $2.46 / $7.37) and Pixtral Large (25.02) (Mistral AI, $2.00 / $6.00).