Cohere: Command A
Analysis Summary
Cohere Command A is a business-oriented text model with a 256K context window. The available data shows moderate reasoning and coding capability, plus a measurable agentic signal, making it relevant to retrieval, document processing, and tool-connected workflows. No vision, function calling, or tool-use flags are listed in the supplied record, so those integrations should be verified before adoption.
Its strongest fit is likely long-document analysis, enterprise search-style applications, structured extraction, and assisted content workflows. The large context can hold extensive briefs and reference material, but the model is not positioned by the data as a leading coding or autonomous-agent system. Pricing at $2.50 input and $10 output per million tokens is appropriate for targeted business tasks, not indiscriminate bulk generation.
Pilot Command A for document-heavy workloads with clear evaluation sets. Keep a stronger tool-enabled model available for complex implementation and agent execution.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Command A combines a 256K context window with useful coding and agentic signals for document-heavy business workflows. Its $2.50 input and $10 output pricing makes it a targeted choice rather than a volume model.
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DFO Verdict
Command A combines a 256K context window with useful coding and agentic signals for document-heavy business workflows. Its $2.50 input and $10 output pricing makes it a targeted choice rather than a volume model.
How Cohere: Command A compares
Cohere: Command A ranks #161 of 427 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #116 of 200 for coding, #119 of 182 for agentic tasks. Its 256K-token context window is larger than 60% of the models we list. At $2.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 14% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $10.00 | $0.010000 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Frequently asked questions about Cohere: Command A
How much does Cohere: Command A cost?
Cohere: Command A costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Cohere: Command A?
Cohere: Command A has a context window of 256,000 tokens (256K).
Is Cohere: Command A good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Cohere: Command A ranks #116 of 200 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created Cohere: Command A?
Cohere: Command A is developed by Cohere and was released on March 13, 2025.