Cohere: Command A
Cohere's Command A offers a large 256K context window and broad benchmark coverage, but its reasoning and coding performance are below average for its price tier. It may suit enterprise customers already in the Cohere ecosystem, but newer alternatives offer better capability per dollar.
Assessment date: April 16, 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..
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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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
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
