Cohere Command A pricing
Cohere's enterprise flagship, built around retrieval-augmented generation and multilingual work, and sold heavily as a private deployment inside customer infrastructure.
List prices checked
By Cohere · Frontier tier
Token pricing
Per million tokens, from the official price list.
| Token type | Price per 1M | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $2.50 | Everything you send, including the system prompt |
| Output | $10.00 | Everything the model generates, reasoning tokens included |
| Blended (3:1) | $4.38 | One number for ranking, at three input tokens per output token |
Source: Cohere pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.
Capabilities
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Context window | 256K tokens |
| Inputs accepted | text |
| Cost to fill the context once | $0.64 |
What it costs per month
Token prices applied to three workload shapes. Input-heavy and output-heavy workloads rank models very differently.
In-app chat assistant
A support or help assistant handling a few thousand conversations a month, with short prompts and short answers.
$100/mo
- 20M input tokens$50
- 5M output tokens$50
RAG over documents
Retrieval-augmented answering where each request stuffs several retrieved passages into the prompt, so input dominates.
$900/mo
- 300M input tokens$750
- 15M output tokens$150
Coding agent
An agentic loop that reads files and writes patches, generating heavy output and re-sending large context on every turn.
$2,000/mo
- 400M input tokens$1,000
- 100M output tokens$1,000
Cohere Command A vs other frontier models
Same capability tier, ranked by blended token price.
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 200K | Head to head |
| OpenAI o3 | $2.00 | $8.00 | 200K | Head to head |
| Grok 4 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 256K | Head to head |
| Mistral Large | $2.00 | $6.00 | 131K | Head to head |
| GPT-5 | $1.25 | $10.00 | 400K | Head to head |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | $1.25 | $10.00 | 1M | Head to head |
Questions about pricing
- How much does the Cohere Command A API cost in 2026?
- $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens, from Cohere's published pricing. The table above converts that into a monthly figure for three common workloads.
- What is the Cohere Command A context window?
- 256K tokens. Filling the window costs whatever that many input tokens cost — at $2.50 per million, a single full-context request runs about $0.64.
- Is Cohere Command A cheaper than the alternatives?
- On a blended 3:1 input-to-output basis it works out at $4.38 per million tokens. The comparison table below ranks it against the other frontier models in the dataset, and the head-to-head pages model both against identical workloads.