Command A vs Gemini 2.5 Flash
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Cohere · Mar 2025
Cohere's enterprise RAG specialist — 111B dense, two-GPU deployable, with downloadable weights for private deployments.
Google · Jun 2025
The 2025 fast-tier favorite: hybrid reasoning, full multimodality and a 1M context at $0.30/$2.50.
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: Gemini 2.5 Flash works out roughly 5.1x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash also takes 1.0M 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
| Command A | Gemini 2.5 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $0.3 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $2.5 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.0M |
| Max output | 8K | 66K |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text, image, audio, video |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | Jan 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $6.75 |
* 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 Gemini 2.5 Flash?
- 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: Gemini 2.5 Flash works out roughly 5.1x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash also takes 1.0M 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, Command A or Gemini 2.5 Flash?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.3/$2.5. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $6.75.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or Gemini 2.5 Flash?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.