Command A vs GPT-5 mini
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.
OpenAI · Aug 2025
A fast, cheap distillation of GPT-5 for high-volume workloads — one fifth of the flagship's price with most of its everyday capability.
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: GPT-5 mini works out roughly 6.4x cheaper per blended million tokens. GPT-5 mini also takes 400K 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 | GPT-5 mini | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $0.25 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $2 |
| Context window | 262K | 400K |
| Max output | 8K | 128K |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | May 2024 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $5.50 |
* 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 GPT-5 mini?
- 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: GPT-5 mini works out roughly 6.4x cheaper per blended million tokens. GPT-5 mini also takes 400K 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 GPT-5 mini?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while GPT-5 mini costs $0.25/$2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $5.50.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or GPT-5 mini?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.