Command A
Cohere released 2025-03-13 cc-by-nc-4.0
$4.38 per million tokens, balanced
GLM 5.3 is both better and cheaper.
It scores +36.7 higher and costs 51% less ($2.15/M against $4.38/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.
MiniMax M2.7 is cheaper still (90% less) but drops 256K → 205K context.
Every price dimension
| Input | $2.50/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $10.00/M |
Independent scores
| Intelligence | 22.8 |
|---|---|
| Coding | 27.8 |
| Agentic | 9.2 |
Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.
Capability
| Context window | 256K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 8K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | no |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-08-31 |
| Open weights | yes |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |
Command A is an open-weights 111B parameter model with a 256k context window focused on delivering great performance across agentic, multilingual, and coding use cases. Compared to other leading proprietary...