Cohere

Command A Plus

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Intelligence Index

de Cohere de référence 2026 multimodal phare moteur uniting visuel document raisonnement, profond chaîne de pensée, et souverain d'entreprise déploiement.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Cohere
Category
flagship
Release Date
2026-05
Knowledge Cutoff
March 2026
Architecture
Flagship Multimodal Agentic MoE
Parameters
Confidential (~180B+ MoE)
Context Window
128K tokens
Max Output
33K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0.75 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
50% off async batch
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text, vision
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
Visit Official Docs ↗

Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Open-Weights Research & Commercial License
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
command-a-plus
Supported SDK & API Protocol
OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Flat rate ($3/1M in) across full 128K window
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Cached input at $0.75/1M tokens
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Weights Precision & Quantization
BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
112 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 387 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
System Card & Safety Framework
Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Command A Plus Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
$292.50$360.00
Monthly Savings: $67.50 (Caching/Batch)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

For single-user chat, a $20/mo subscription caps your bill below this API volume.

Break-even point: ~34 requests/day equals $20/month.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Command A Plus (Active)
$292.50
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Command A Plus:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$86.63/mo
Saves $205.88/mo (70% cost reduction) vs sending 100% of traffic to Command A Plus.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (70)Reasoning (85)Knowledge (87)Speed (45)Context (75)Cost Value (58)
Command A Plus2026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
60.5%
GPQA Diamond
74%
MMLU-Pro
86.8%
HumanEval
94.5%
Terminal-Bench
50%
AIME
82.5%
Long-Context Reasoning
88%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1410pts

Strengths

  • de Cohere la plupart puissant modèle de fondation à date, blending vision, raisonnement, et agents
  • Flawless récupération ancrage avec strict anti-hallucination citations vérification
  • à poids ouverts availability pour souverain national et regulated d'entreprise déploiements

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • Premium API token tarification ($3.00/$12.00)
  • élevé matériel requirements pour local cluster auto-hébergement

Editorial Assessment

le absolute crown jewel de de Cohere d'entreprise AI portfolio dans 2026.

Best for: d'entreprise intelligence platforms, souverain government automatisation, et mission critique agent flux de travail

Frequently Asked Questions about Command A Plus

How much does the Command A Plus API cost per 1M tokens?+

Command A Plus by Cohere is priced at $3 per 1M input tokens and $12 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0.75 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Command A Plus pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Command A Plus's context window?+

Command A Plus features a 128K tokens context window, which equals approximately 96,000 English words or ~256 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 32,768 tokens.

Can I run Command A Plus locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, Command A Plus (Confidential (~180B+ MoE)) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.

Does Cohere train on data sent to the Command A Plus API, and is commercial use allowed?+

100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Open-Weights Research & Commercial License. Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.

How does Command A Plus perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Command A Plus achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 58/100, scoring 60.5% on SWE-bench Verified, 74% on GPQA Diamond, 86.8% on MMLU-Pro, and 1410 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Command A Plus best used for?+

Command A Plus is best suited for: d'entreprise intelligence platforms, souverain government automatisation, et mission critique agent flux de travail. Assessment: le absolute crown jewel de de Cohere d'entreprise AI portfolio dans 2026.

Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.

Sources: Cohere 2026 Flagship Keynote (May 2026)↗