vs
3:0
overall capability wins (0 ties across 3 scored). Command A leads overall.
- Arena1:0
- Specs2:0
Verdict
Command A ranks higher on LMArena (+78 Elo); Command A offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K); Command A allows ~2.0x more max output (8K vs 4K).
- Command A ranks higher on LMArena (+78 Elo)
- Command A offers ~2.0x larger context (256K vs 128K)
- Command A allows ~2.0x more max output (8K vs 4K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Command A
- $5
- Command R+ (08-2024)
- $5
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Cohere
Cohere
Family
Command
Command
License
CC-BY-NC-4.0 (weights) / Proprietary API
Proprietary
Open weights
No
No
Release
Mar 13, 2025
Aug 1, 2024
Knowledge cutoff
-
2024-06-01
API / provider
Cohere
Cohere
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
256K
128K
Max output
8K
4K
Parameters
111B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$2.50
$2.50
Output $/1M
$10
$10
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$4.38
$4.38
Speed
tok/s
75
75
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.4
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
71.2
—
GPQA Diamond
52.7
—
Humanity's Last Exam
4.0
—
AIME 2025
13.0
—
MATH-500
81.9
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
16.4
—
AA-LCR v1.1
21.3
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
36.5
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
28.7
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
28.1
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,354
1,276
| Metric | Command A | Command R+ (08-2024) | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Cohere | Cohere | — |
| Family | Command | Command | — |
| License | CC-BY-NC-4.0 (weights) / Proprietary API | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | No | No | — |
| Release | Mar 13, 2025 | Aug 1, 2024 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | 2024-06-01 | — |
| API / provider | Cohere | Cohere | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 256K | 128K | A +128K |
| Max output | 8K | 4K | A +4K |
| Parameters | 111B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $2.50 | $2.50 | tie |
| Output $/1M | $10 | $10 | tie |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $4.38 | $4.38 | tie |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 75 | 75 | tie |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.4 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 71.2 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 52.7 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.0 | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | 13.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 81.9 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 16.4 | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 21.3 | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 36.5 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 28.7 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 28.1 | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,354 | 1,276 | A +78 Elo |
Command A
- Context
- 256K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 111B
- Price
- $2.50 / $10
- Speed
- 75 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0 (weights) / Proprietary API
Cohere's enterprise RAG-oriented flagship with strong tool use and multilingual retrieval.
Command R+ (08-2024)
- Context
- 128K / 4K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $2.50 / $10
- Speed
- 75 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Proprietary
Cohere's RAG/agent flagship before Command A — strong multi-hop tool use at 128K context; still widely deployed on Bedrock and Azure.
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