Cohere: Command A
Analysis Summary
Cohere: Command A sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #238 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $2.50 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review.
Editorial notes
Cohere Command A offers a 256K context window and broad benchmark coverage, but scores are low across reasoning, coding, and agentic dimensions relative to its $2.5/$10 pricing.
Assessed May 5, 2026
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Performance Profile
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
Source: Artificial Analysis
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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 |
Live Performance
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