Command A: API pricing, providers and specs
Command A is a text model by Cohere. 4 providers serve it, from $10 to $10.58 /1M; the lowest price is at Vercel AI Gateway.
How Command A compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Pricey for its class: at $10 /1M, its lowest price is above 86% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 256K-token context window is larger than 38% of them (median 262K), about 380 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #73 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 4 providers serve it; 60% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license: no commercial use.
Command A prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel AI Gateway | $2.50/1M | $10/1M | — | 256K |
| OpenRouter | $2.50/1M | From$10/1M | — | 256K |
 AIHubMix | $2.50/1M | $10/1M | — | 256K |
| AI/ML API | $2.65/1M | $10.58/1M | — | — |
- Vercel AI Gateway$10
- AIHubMix$10
- OpenRouterFrom$10
- AI/ML API$10.58
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Cohere
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 256K≈ 380 pages of text
- Max output
- 8K
- Capabilities
- JSON
- Released
- Mar 11, 2025
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0no commercial use
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 111B
- Arena score
- 1331Text
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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The lowest price for Command A is $10 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Vercel AI Gateway, at $10 /1M. 4 providers serve Command A; the table above lists every one with its price.
Command A reads up to 256K tokens per request and writes up to 8K.
Yes. Command A's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
About 111B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
4 API providers serve Command A. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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