Command A pricing & price history
Command A by Cohere costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 256K token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $2.50 input / $10.00 output.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
No real-traffic data for Cohere's own API on this model (it may not be served directly); the table below covers third-party hosts and says nothing about the official API.
Which platform runs Command A most reliably
1 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Cohere is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere official most stable | Consistently stableavg 100.00% | 100% | — |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 27m ago.
Cost calculator
Cheaper alternatives to Command A
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About Command A
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...
FAQ
How much does Command A cost?
Command A by Cohere costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 256K token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $2.50 input / $10.00 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.01.
What is the context window of Command A?
Command A supports up to 256,000 tokens of context and up to 8,192 output tokens per request.
Has Command A’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Command A being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Command A as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Command A?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 ($0.0434/$0.30), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29).