vs
2:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Command A Vision leads overall.
- Pricing0:3
- Speed0:2
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Command A Vision offers ~31.3x larger context (128K vs 4K); Command A Vision allows ~2.0x more max output (8K vs 4K); Command Light is ~11.7x cheaper on a blended token basis than Command A Vision.
- Command A Vision offers ~31.3x larger context (128K vs 4K)
- Command A Vision allows ~2.0x more max output (8K vs 4K)
- Command Light is ~11.7x cheaper on a blended token basis than Command A Vision
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Command A Vision
- $5
- Command Light
- $0.45
Command Light is about 11.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Cohere
Cohere
Family
Command
Command
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Jul 1, 2025
Nov 2, 2023
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Cohere
Cohere
Modalities
text, image → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
128K
4K
Max output
8K
4K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2.50
$0.30
Output $/1M
$10
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$4.38
$0.38
Speed
tok/s
70
120
TTFT (s)
0.5
0.2
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
—
—
| Metric | Command A Vision | Command Light | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Cohere | Cohere | — |
| Family | Command | Command | — |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Jul 1, 2025 | Nov 2, 2023 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Cohere | Cohere | — |
| Modalities | text, image → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 4K | A +124K |
| Max output | 8K | 4K | A +4K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2.50 | $0.30 | B +$2.20 |
| Output $/1M | $10 | $0.60 | B +$9.40 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $4.38 | $0.38 | B +$4 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 70 | 120 | B +50 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.5 | 0.2 | B +0.30 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | — | — | — |
Command A Vision
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2.50 / $10
- Speed
- 70 tok/s · 0.5s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cohere multimodal Command A variant for charts, diagrams, OCR, and document Q&A in enterprise RAG pipelines.
Command Light
- Context
- 4K / 4K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.30 / $0.60
- Speed
- 120 tok/s · 0.2s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cohere's budget Command SKU for classification and short RAG answers.
Benchmark charts
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