Cohere: Command A

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Large memoryTool use

Cohere: Command A is a text model for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows. It combines strong coding performance and reliable tool use and agent behavior with a 256K tokens context window and a premium profile. Use it for coding, software engineering, and agent workflows when quality, speed, and cost matters.

Input

$2.50/1M

Output

$10.00/1M

Cached

$0.63/1M

Batch

$1.25/1M

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Technical specifications

Command A at a glance.

Memory

256,000

tokens

Max reply

8,192

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

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Released

Mar 2025

Training cutoff

Jul 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

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What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Command A

  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Command A costs roughly $588 per month. Input is $2.50 /1M tokens and output is $10.00 /1M tokens.
Command A has a 256,000-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 48,000 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Command A supports calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
Command A was released in March 2025, with training data cut off around July 2024.
Models in a similar class include Nova Premier 1.0, GPT-5 Image Mini, GPT-5.4. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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