Command A
by CohereChat
Command A is an open-weights 111B parameter model with a 256k context window focused on delivering great performance across agentic, multilingual, and coding use cases. Compared to other leading proprietary and open-weights models Command A delivers maximum performance with minimum hardware costs, excelling on business-critical agentic and multilingual tasks.
- Context
- 256K tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Parameters
- 111B (total or active not stated)
- Released
- 2025-03-13
- Weights
- Open
cohere/command-a · also seen as cohere/command-a-03-2025
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2025-03-13
- Weights
- Open
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 256,000 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 8,192
- Providers
- 4 + 3 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $2.50–$3.44 in · $10.00–$13.75 out per 1M tokens · across all 4 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2025-03-13
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06-01
- Parameters
- 111B (total or active not stated)
- Developer country
- Canada
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt cachingunknown
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $2.50 in / $10 out per 1M tokens at Cohere on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
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