Context
256K
Max output
8K
Serving providers
2
Cheapest input
$2.50 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day.
Benchmarks
independent evaluations · source: Artificial AnalysisSpeed & latency
Output speed
62 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
1.80s
latency
Headline indices
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
| Benchmark | Best score | Effort | Cost / task | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 44.8 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| GPQA Diamond | 53% | default | — | |||||||||||||
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| Humanity's Last Exam | 4% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| IFBench | 36% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| LiveCodeBench | 29% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Long-Context Reasoning | 21% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 2026 | 71% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience | -48.3 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience Accuracy | 0.2 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| Omniscience Non Hallucination | 0.2 | default | — | |||||||||||||
| SciCodeArtificial Analysis did not report this score in its latest run on Oct 14, 2026 | 28% | — | — | |||||||||||||
| TerminalBench Hard | 1% | default | — | |||||||||||||
| τ²-bench | 15% | default | — | |||||||||||||
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
Pricing by serving provider
standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand| Serving provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Endpoints | ||||||||||
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| OpenRouterRouted quote | $2.50 | $10.00 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| VercelRouted quoteVercel reseller quote | $2.50 | $10.00 | 1 | ||||||||||
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Price history
listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens Input Output
Cost calculator
estimate your monthly spend on this model$1,300
estimated / month
Model IDs
copy the exact identifier for your platformcohere/command-acohere/command-a
Frequently asked questions
Command A pricing, context and availabilityHow much does Command A cost?
Command A costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote, and $10.00 per 1M output tokens as an OpenRouter routed quote. An OpenRouter routed quote is the price of whichever upstream provider OpenRouter prefers today, so it moves day to day.
What is the context window of Command A?
Command A accepts up to 256K tokens of context and can return up to 8K output tokens.
Which providers serve Command A?
Command A is available from 2 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. OpenRouter is currently the cheapest, as a routed quote.
What can Command A do?
Command A supports tool use and structured output.
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Listed prices from LiteLLM, OpenRouter and Vercel · last checked Oct 14, 2026
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