Cohere command model for multilingual enterprise agents, tools, and chat
Command A by cohere is offered by 8 providers on this page. Its reference price is $3.44 per 1M input tokens and $13.75 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is OpenRouter at $0.30 / $1.50 per 1M, about 12× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
Artificial Analysis rates it 13.1 on the Intelligence Index, with 27.8 for coding and 1 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.60 per 1M, that is roughly 22 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 175 tokens per second, with 0.49s to the first token.
The context window is 256,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 131,072 to 256,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use. Its training knowledge cuts off at 2024-08-31.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter cohere/command-a-plus | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.15 | — | 192,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway cohere/command-a-plus | Gateway | $0.30 | $1.50 | $0.15 | — | 192,000 ⚠ | 64,000 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,192 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,192 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 256,000 | 8,000 | |
| Azure cohere-command-a | Cloud | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| Azure Cognitive Services cohere-command-a | Cloud | $2.50 | $10.00 | — | — | 131,072 ⚠ | 8,192 | |
| AI/ML API | Gateway | $3.44 | $13.75 | — | — | 256,000 | 256,000 |
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.