Cohere: Command A
Analysis Summary
Cohere Command A is an enterprise-focused model from Cohere with a 256K context window and text-only modality. Its MMLU-Pro score of 0.712 and IFBench of 0.365 suggest reasonable instruction-following for structured content tasks, and Cohere's enterprise tooling and deployment options are well-established.
For businesses, Command A is positioned for document-heavy workflows, summarisation, and structured content generation where a large context window matters. Its coding index of 9.9 and agentic index of 8.0 are modest, so it is not the right choice for software engineering or autonomous agent pipelines.
At $2.5 input and $10 output per million tokens, it is priced at a premium relative to its benchmark performance. Teams already in the Cohere ecosystem or requiring enterprise SLAs may find it a practical fit, but those evaluating purely on capability-per-dollar will find stronger alternatives at lower cost.
Assessed June 17, 2026
Editorial notes
Cohere Command A offers a 256K context window and strong instruction-following for enterprise content workflows, but reasoning and coding benchmarks are below mid-tier competitors.
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Performance Profile
How Cohere: Command A compares
Cohere: Command A ranks #268 of 380 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #272 of 292 for agentic tasks. Its 256K-token context window is larger than 70% of the models we list. At $2.50 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 13% of comparable models.
About Cohere: Command A
Command A is an open-weights 111B parameter model with a 256k context window focused on delivering great performance across agentic, multilingual, and coding use cases. Compared to other leading proprietary..
Performance Indices
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
cohere/command-a
|
| Provider | cohere |
| Release Date | March 13, 2025 |
| Context Length | 256,000 tokens |
| Max Completion | 8,192 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | $0.002500 |
| Output | $10.00 | $0.010000 |
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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).
Who created Cohere: Command A?
Cohere: Command A is developed by Cohere and was released on March 13, 2025.
