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Command A Pricing
Cohere · cohere-command-a
Input / 1M tokens
$2.50
Output / 1M tokens
$10.00
Context window
256k tokens
≈ 341 pages of text
Max output
8,192 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.007
1,000 requests / month$7.00/mo10,000 requests / month$70.00/mo100,000 requests / month$700.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Command A preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Handles 256k-context retrieval and long-document reasoning effectively. Suitable for enterprise RAG and structured extraction workloads.
The business tradeoff
Output token pricing is relatively high. Self-hosted open weights introduce deployment and latency variance across environments.
Cheaper from Cohere
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.