Command A Vision vs Claude Opus 5.5
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare Command A Vision by Cohere against Claude Opus 5.5 by Anthropic across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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Command A Vision
IA Multimodal NativaO Command A Vision da Cohere é um modelo de IA projetado para compreensão multimodal nativa de texto e imagem e leitura visual de documentos, oferecendo janela de contexto de 128K, velocidade de 65 tokens/s, índice de inteligência de 53/100
$2.50 / 1M
$10.00 / 1M
128K tokens
45%
Claude Opus 5.5
Modelo Principal de FronteiraO Claude Opus 5.5 da Anthropic é um modelo de IA projetado para raciocínio corporativo de fronteira, programação avançada e cargas de produção, oferecendo janela de contexto de 1M, velocidade de 78 tokens/s, índice de inteligência de 94/100
$4.00 / 1M
$20.00 / 1M
1M tokens
84.6%
Principais Diferenças em Resumo
- Command A Vision is 1.8x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window (1M vs 128K tokens).
- Claude Opus 5.5 is faster at 78 tok/s vs 65 tok/s.
- Claude Opus 5.5 leads on SWE-bench coding (84.6% vs 45.0%).
| Feature | Command A Vision | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 53 | 94 |
Provider | Cohere | Anthropic |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $2.50 / 1M | $4.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $10.00 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $2.02 / 1M | $3.08 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 128K tokens~192 A4 pages of text | 1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 16K | 128K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 65 tok/s | 78 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 45% | 84.6% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 62.5% | 82.3% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.75 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
Quem vence em cada categoria?
At-a-glance decision frameworkPontuações de Benchmarks Verificadas
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
Latência e Tempo de Resposta
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Simulador Interativo de Custo de Tokens
Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.
Command A Vision · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Janela de contexto de 128K com limite máximo de saída de 16K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 45% · GPQA Diamond 62.5%)
- Taxa de transferência rápida de 65 tokens/segundo com latência inicial (TTFT) de 550 ms
- Pesos abertos (Confidential (~110B+)) para auto-hospedagem local ou em nuvem privada via vLLM, SGLang ou Ollama
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Requer servidores GPU com memória VRAM adequada para execução local em precisão total
- Para alto volume de requisições, recomenda-se ativar o cache de prompts e a Batch API para reduzir custos
Claude Opus 5.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Janela de contexto de 1M com limite máximo de saída de 128K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 84.6% · GPQA Diamond 82.3%)
- Taxa de transferência rápida de 78 tokens/segundo com latência inicial (TTFT) de 1400 ms
- Economia de API competitiva ($4/$20 por 1M de tokens) com suporte a cache de prompts e saídas JSON estruturadas
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Modelo proprietário em nuvem; não permite download dos pesos para execução local offline
- Para alto volume de requisições, recomenda-se ativar o cache de prompts e a Batch API para reduzir custos
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | Command A Vision | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.80 | $3.85 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 38K | 68K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 0K | 42K |
Especificações Técnicas
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Feature | Command A Vision | Claude Opus 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | command-a-vision | claude-opus-5-5-20260901 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI | Anthropic Messages API + AWS Bedrock + Vertex AI |
| Release Date | 2025-07 | 2026-09 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | May 2025 | June 2026 |
| Architecture | Enterprise Multimodal Agent Transformer | Extended Autonomous Hybrid Reasoning Transformer |
| Parameters | Confidential (~110B+) | Confidential |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | 4,000 – 10,000 RPM (Tier 4 + Priority Tier) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($2.5/1M in) across full 128K window | Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Cached input at $0.75/1M tokens | $0.4/1M cached read (90% off); 5-min default & 1-hour extended TTL |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools | Native Web Search Citations + Code Execution Tool + MCP Connectors |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Custom Model Tuning via Amazon Bedrock & Prompt Distillation |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 68 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 237 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) | Anthropic RSP ASL-2 / ASL-3 Constitutional Safety Evaluated |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier |
| Input Modalities | text, vision | text, vision |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
Command A Vision vs Claude Opus 5.5: Respostas Rápidas (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, Command A Vision or Claude Opus 5.5?
Claude Opus 5.5 is more intelligent. It scores 94 compared with 53 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
Claude Opus 5.5 is faster, generating 78 tokens per second compared with 65 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Command A Vision is cheaper at $2.02 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $3.08 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
Command A Vision has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.55s compared with 1.40s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Claude Opus 5.5 has a larger context window, supporting 1M tokens compared with 128K tokens.
Veredito
Choose Command A Vision for indicado para compreensão multimodal nativa de texto e imagem e leitura visual de documentos, arquiteturas rag corporativas e integração escalável via api., or choose Claude Opus 5.5 for indicado para raciocínio corporativo de fronteira, programação avançada e cargas de produção, arquiteturas rag corporativas e integração escalável via api..
Perguntas Frequentes (FAQ)
Which is cheaper: Command A Vision or Claude Opus 5.5?+
Command A Vision costs $2.5/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, while Claude Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: Command A Vision or Claude Opus 5.5?+
Command A Vision supports 128K tokens whereas Claude Opus 5.5 supports 1M tokens.
Understand key metrics like context window, token pricing, reasoning mode, and SWE-bench scores in our comprehensive AI glossary.
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Fontes oficiais: Cohere & Anthropic Official Documentation