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Command A
cohere·cohere/command-a-03-2025·GA·Open weights·command-a series
Cohere command model for multilingual enterprise agents, tools, and chat
At a glance
Official price$2.50 / $10.00 per 1M
Cache read — · Cohere
Lowest paid$2.50 / $10.00
OpenRouter Gateway · 1× spread
Context256,000
⚠ Providers report 131,072–288,000; the table below is authoritative
Output limit8,000
Capabilities
Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
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Knowledge cutoff2024-06-01
Released / updated2025-03-13 / 2025-03-13
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence22.8
Value5
Coding27.8
Agentic9.2
Output speed207 tok/s
TTFT0.38 s
Cost per task$0
Value formulaIQ 22.8 ÷ min blended $4.375 = 5
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
defaultIQ 7.5 · 60 tok/s
defaultIQ 22.8 · 207 tok/s
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 6 providers6 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter cohere/command-a | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,192 | |
| CohereOfficial | First-party | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,000 | |
| Azure Cognitive Services cohere-command-a | First-party | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Azure cohere-command-a | First-party | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway cohere/command-a | Cloud | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,000 | |
| Eden AI | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 288,000 ⚠ | 8,000 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1OpenRouter$1,000.00
2Cohere · Official$1,000.00
3Azure Cognitive Services$1,000.00
4Azure$1,000.00
5Vercel AI Gateway$1,000.00
6Eden AI$1,000.00
Switch to OpenRouter to save $0.00/mo (0%). The gap is small, so staying on the official channel is fine.
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark1 items
| Name | Conditions | Score | Metric | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12 | percent correct | Source ↗ |
The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended