One agent session
1M input tokens and 100K output tokens, no caching.
- Input1M x $2.50 = $2.50
- Output0.1M x $10 = $1.00
$3.50per session
Cohere - Open weights
Command A pricing and specs
Command A is an open-weights model from Cohere that costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens on the first-party API, with a 256K-token context window.
Last verified from docs.cohere.com. All sources
- Input / 1M
- $2.50
- Output / 1M
- $10
- Context
- 256K tokens
- Weights
- Open
Pricing per 1M tokens
| Item | Price / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 |
| Output | $10 |
Note: Price is copied from the Pricing block on Cohere's own Command A model doc ($2.5 / 1M input, $10 / 1M output). On 2026-10-17 the Generative models tab on cohere.com/pricing no longer lists Command A. Its only trace on that page is an unrendered model card in the page data, labelled 'Command A+' under card id command-a, so that page was not used for the price. Cohere does not publish cache or batch prices for chat models. Text-only, Live on docs/models. The open weights are licensed for non-commercial use only. The Vercel AI Gateway lists cohere/command-a with the same 256K context, 8K output and the same price.
Specs
- Context window
- 256,000 tokens
- Max output
- 8,000 tokens
- Release date
- Provider
- Cohere
- API model id
command-a-03-2025- Vercel AI Gateway id
cohere/command-a- Weights
- Open weights
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 (Hugging Face license tag: cc-by-nc-4.0; gated, non-commercial use only)
- Weights download
- huggingface.co
What Command A costs in practice
Worked from the standard list rates above, with the math shown so you can swap in your own token counts.
A chat app
10,000 requests a day at 2K input and 500 output tokens each.
- Input20M x $2.50 = $50.00
- Output5M x $10 = $50.00
$100.00per day
$3,000.00 per 30-day month
Compare with
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| Command A (this page) | $2.50 | $10 |
| Claude Sonnet 5Anthropic | $2 | $10 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2 | $10 |
| Command R+ 08-2024Cohere | $2.50 | $10 |
| Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle | $1.25 | $10 |
| Aya Expanse 32BCohere | $0.50 | $1.50 |
| Command R 08-2024Cohere | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| Command R7BCohere | $0.0375 | $0.15 |
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FAQ
How much does Command A cost per million tokens?
Command A costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens on Cohere's first-party API, per docs.cohere.com on October 17, 2026.
What is Command A's context window?
Command A has a 256,000-token context window and returns up to 8,000 output tokens per response.
Are Command A's weights open?
Yes. Command A's weights are published at https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025 under the CC-BY-NC-4.0 (Hugging Face license tag: cc-by-nc-4.0; gated, non-commercial use only).
When was Command A released?
Cohere released Command A on March 13, 2025.
Sources
Last verified from docs.cohere.com.
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