Claude Opus 4.8 vs Command A
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Anthropic · May 2026
Anthropic's flagship Opus with adaptive thinking, effort controls and a 1M context — 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $5/$25.
Cohere · Mar 2025
Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist — 111B dense, two-GPU deployable, with downloadable weights for private deployments.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Command A is about 2.3x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Claude Opus 4.8 also takes 1M of context versus 262K for Command A. And Command A is open-weights (CC-BY-NC 4.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Command A | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5 | $2.5 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 | $10 |
| Context window | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | 64K | 8K |
| Open weights | no | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Mar 2026 | Jun 2024 |
| Released | May 2026 | Mar 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $87.50 | $40.00 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Claude Opus 4.8 or Command A?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Command A is about 2.3x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Claude Opus 4.8 also takes 1M of context versus 262K for Command A. And Command A is open-weights (CC-BY-NC 4.0), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Command A?
- Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, while Command A costs $2.5/$10. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $87.50 versus $40.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.8 or Command A?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.