Command A vs DeepSeek V4
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Command A
Cohere · Mar 2025
Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist — 111B dense, two-GPU deployable, with downloadable weights for private deployments.
DeepSeek V4
DeepSeek · Mar 2026
The open-weights shock of 2026: ~81% SWE-bench Verified, a 1M context and MIT license at $0.30/$0.50 per million tokens.
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. On price the gap is dramatic: DeepSeek V4 works out roughly 13x cheaper per blended million tokens. DeepSeek V4 also takes 1M of context versus 262K for Command A.
Specs & pricing
| Command A | DeepSeek V4 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $0.3 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $0.5 |
| Context window | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 8K | 64K |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | yes (MIT) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | Dec 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Mar 2026 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $3.75 |
* 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, Command A or DeepSeek V4?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: DeepSeek V4 works out roughly 13x cheaper per blended million tokens. DeepSeek V4 also takes 1M of context versus 262K for Command A.
- Which is cheaper, Command A or DeepSeek V4?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while DeepSeek V4 costs $0.3/$0.5. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $3.75.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or DeepSeek V4?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.