Command A vs Qwen3-235B-A22B
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.
Qwen3-235B-A22B
69.0Alibaba (Qwen) · Jul 2025
The most popular open general-purpose Qwen: 235B MoE with hybrid thinking, a staple of the 2025 open-source ecosystem.
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: Qwen3-235B-A22B works out roughly 11x cheaper per blended million tokens.
Specs & pricing
| Command A | Qwen3-235B-A22B | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 69.0 |
| Input price / 1M | $2.5 | $0.22 |
| Output price / 1M | $10 | $0.88 |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 33K |
| Open weights | yes (CC-BY-NC 4.0) | yes (Apache 2.0) |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jun 2024 | Apr 2025 |
| Released | Mar 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $40.00 | $3.52 |
* 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 Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- 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: Qwen3-235B-A22B works out roughly 11x cheaper per blended million tokens.
- Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- Command A costs $2.5/$10 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-235B-A22B costs $0.22/$0.88. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $40.00 versus $3.52.
- Which model is better for coding, Command A or Qwen3-235B-A22B?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.