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Command A Vision

Cohere's first multimodal model, released July 2025 for enterprise visual tasks like chart analysis, OCR and document Q&A across 6 languages.

Key Specifications

Context window
128K tokens
Max output
8K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Released
Parameters
112B
Inputs
Text, image
Capabilities Show details
Structured output Return responses in structured formats like JSON.

Hosted API pricing

Provider Input /1M tokens Output /1M tokens Cost at 10M in + 2M out
Cohere logo Cohere Creator Open weights, no hosted price View

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 Vision needs about 66 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 8× RTX 3060 at about $346 a month.

Single node ≤ 8
Precision Memory Cheapest fit (32K context) Cost /mo
4-bitINT4 / FP4
66 GB
$346
8-bitFP8 / INT8
115 GB
$634
16-bitFP16 / BF16
228 GB
$3,168

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. How we estimate costs.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Command A Vision good for?

Visual document work: charts, diagrams, tables, OCR and image questions, in 6 languages. CC-BY-NC weights, servable on a single high-memory GPU for non-commercial use.

When is Command A Vision not a good fit?

Tool use: it has no function calling, and no audio or video input. Commercial self-hosting needs a separate licence from Cohere, and its short maximum output limits long answers.

What is the cheapest way to run Command A Vision?

No provider we track hosts it; self-hosting on the cheapest rental that fits (8x RTX 3060, $0.48 per hour) costs about $346 a month.

Can I self-host Command A Vision?

Yes. The weights are CC-BY-NC licensed. At 4-bit it needs about 66 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $346 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.

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