Cohere

Command A

CTX256K

46Quality

Tools

Input$2.50/M

Output$10/M

Cohere command model for multilingual enterprise agents, tools, and chat

Open weightsCC BY-NC 4.0514/1044

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Command A

Cohere command model for multilingual enterprise agents, tools, and chat

command-a-03-2025

Type: Text
Quality: 46 · Top 54% on the LMArena Text
Context window: 256,000 tokens
Max output: 8,000 tokens
Input price: $2.50 / 1M tokens
Output price: $10.00 / 1M tokens
Cache read: —
Cache write: —
Released: Mar 13, 2025
Knowledge cutoff: Jun 2024
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Reasoning: No
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: No
File attachments: No
Access: Open weights
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Rarity: Rare
Set number: 514/1044

Open Cohere docs Quality 46 Where to run it 9 Meet its creature Battle Gemini 4 Argon

No matching Hugging Face repo was found, so this shows Cohere’s usual open-weight license. Check the model card before relying on it. Specs from models.dev, last changed Oct 19, 2026. Official source: docs.cohere.com.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for Command A, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 54% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #225.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text#225 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,331 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#235 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,330 rating
LMArena Text · Math#237 of 400
The text arena’s math prompts only.1,300 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#199 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,319 rating

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

9 providers sell Command A through an API. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestAzure$2.50 in · $10.00 out
From the labCohere$2.50 in · $10.00 out

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
AzureCheapest paid`cohere-command-a`	$2.50	$10.00	131K
Azure Cognitive Services`cohere-command-a`	$2.50	$10.00	131K
CohereOfficial`command-a-03-2025`	$2.50	$10.00	256K
Eden AI`cohere/command-a-03-2025`	$2.50	$10.00	288K
Kilo Gateway`cohere/command-a`	$2.50	$10.00	256K
Merge Gateway`cohere/command-a-03-2025`	$2.50	$10.00	256K
OpenRouter`cohere/command-a`	$2.50	$10.00	256K
Vercel AI Gateway`cohere/command-a`	$2.50	$10.00	256K
AI/ML API`cohere/command-a`	$3.44	$13.75	256K

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

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Command A

Command A

How good is it?

Leaderboards

Where to run it

API providers

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