How much does the Command A API cost?

Command A costs $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. A workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month costs about $40.00.

What is the context window of Command A?

Command A supports a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K), with up to 8K output tokens per response.

Is Command A open source?

Yes — Command A is an open-weights model released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.

What are the best alternatives to Command A?

The closest alternatives by overall capability are Qwen3-Max, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Pro. See the comparison pages for detailed head-to-head breakdowns.

Command A

Name: Command A
Price: 2.5 USD
Author: Cohere

Cohere·Mar 2025open weights · CC-BY-NC 4.0

Command A is built for the enterprise jobs Cohere knows best: retrieval-augmented generation, multilingual business documents and tool use, served privately. It runs on just two GPUs — unusual for its class — and its weights are downloadable under a non-commercial license, with commercial terms via Cohere. It won't win frontier benchmark fights, but for regulated industries wanting capable private RAG it remains a serious, specialized contender.

Benchmark results

No verified benchmark results tracked yet for Command A. This page is updated as official evaluations are published.

Where it shines

Purpose-built for enterprise RAG and citation-grounded answers
Two-GPU deployment footprint
Strong 23-language business multilingual coverage

Alternatives to Command A

Qwen3-Max

Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.

GPT-5.5

OpenAI's flagship reasoning model with a 1M-token context window, built for hard coding, science and long-horizon agentic work.

Gemini 3 Pro

Google's November 2025 frontier breakout — 91.9% GPQA Diamond and 37.5% HLE made it the reasoning leader of its generation.

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google's 2025 workhorse flagship — first mainstream thinking model with a 1M context, still widely deployed.

Frequently asked questions

How much does the Command A API cost?: Command A costs $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. A workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month costs about $40.00.
What is the context window of Command A?: Command A supports a context window of 262,144 tokens (262K), with up to 8K output tokens per response.
Is Command A open source?: Yes — Command A is an open-weights model released under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What are the best alternatives to Command A?: The closest alternatives by overall capability are Qwen3-Max, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Pro. See the comparison pages for detailed head-to-head breakdowns.