Command A Reasoning

Cohere's first reasoning model, released August 2025 at 111B parameters, with chain-of-thought reasoning for agentic tasks across 23 languages.

Params: 111B
Context: 256K tokens
Max output: 32K
Cutoff: Jun 2024
Released: Aug 2025
License: CC-BY-NC

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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 Reasoning, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Command A Reasoning, 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	Open weights, no hosted price			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 Reasoning 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.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Command A Reasoning 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
4-bit INT4 / FP4	65 GB80 GB	8× RTX 3060	$461$461
8-bit FP8 / INT8	114 GB130 GB	8× RTX 4060 Ti	$749$1,440
16-bit FP16 / BF16	226 GB241 GB	8× RTX A6000	$3,283$3,283

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. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

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Capabilities

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

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Reasoning Thinks before it answers, always on or as a switchable mode.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Common questions

What is Command A Reasoning good for?

Multi-step agent and tool-use tasks where chain-of-thought reasoning matters, in 23 languages. CC-BY-NC weights, servable on a single high-memory GPU for non-commercial use.

When is Command A Reasoning not a good fit?

Image input: it is text only. Commercial self-hosting needs a separate licence from Cohere, and it knows less of recent events than the newer Command models.

What is the cheapest way to run Command A Reasoning?

No provider we track hosts it; self-hosting on the cheapest rental that fits (8x RTX 3060, $0.64 per hour) costs about $461 a month.

Can I self-host Command A Reasoning?

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.