Command A

Cohere's 111B flagship enterprise model, released March 2025 and optimized for RAG and agentic workflows across 23 languages on two GPUs. Weights under CC-BY-NC.

Params: 111B
Context: 256K tokens
Max output: 8K
Released: Mar 2025
License: CC-BY-NC

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Hosted API price

List price via Cohere · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $2.50 /1M
Output: $10.00 /1M
Hosted by: 2 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

Transparency and funding

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Every provider serving Command A, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Command A, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
Cohere Creator	$2.50	$10.00	$45.00	Visit website
Azure	$2.50	$10.00	$45.00	Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Command A needs about 65 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 8× RTX 3060 at about $461 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 123M tokens a month on Cohere's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Command A at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 256K context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	65 GB80 GB	8× RTX 3060	$461$461	123M tokens /mo123M tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	114 GB130 GB	8× RTX 4060 Ti	$749$1,440	200M tokens /mo384M tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	226 GB241 GB	8× RTX A6000	$3,283$3,283	876M tokens /mo876M tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Command A by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Command A per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Command A
GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI	$3.3333	$2.00	$10.00	1M	Feb 2026	−11%
GPT-6 Sol OpenAI	$3.3333	$2.00	$10.00	1M	Apr 2026	−11%
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google Cloud	$3.6667	$2.00	$12.00	1M	Jan 2025	−2%
GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI	$3.6667	$2.00	$12.00	1M	Feb 2026	−2%
Kimi K3 Moonshot AI	$3.6667	$2.00	$12.00	1M		−2%
Command A This model Cohere	$3.75	$2.50	$10.00	256K
Command R+ 08-2024 Cohere	$3.75	$2.50	$10.00	128K	Feb 2023	0%
GPT-4o OpenAI	$3.75	$2.50	$10.00	128K	Oct 2023	0%
GPT-5.2 OpenAI	$3.7917	$1.75	$14.00	400K	Aug 2025	+1%
GPT-5.3-Codex OpenAI	$3.7917	$1.75	$14.00	400K	Aug 2025	+1%
GPT-5.4 OpenAI	$4.5833	$2.50	$15.00	1M	Aug 2025	+22%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Command A accepts and can do, as published by Cohere.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Command A good for?

RAG, agents and multi-step tool use in 23 languages. Weights are open under CC-BY-NC, which allows non-commercial self-hosting on a single high-memory GPU.

When is Command A not a good fit?

Image input: it is text only. Commercial self-hosting needs a separate licence from Cohere, it sits at the top of Cohere's price range, and its short maximum output limits long answers.

What is the cheapest way to run Command A?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. Cohere charges $2.50 in / $10.00 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 8x RTX 3060 at $461 a month, which costs the same as about 123M tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Command A?

Yes. The weights are CC-BY-NC licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 65 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $461 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.