How accurate is Command A?

Command A answered 36 of 80 questions correctly (45.0%) in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #49 of 78 models.

How fast is Command A?

Command A generated a median of 7 output tokens per second in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #71 of 78. Median time to first token was 1.8 s.

What is the latency of Command A?

Command A had a median time to first token of 1.8 s in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #61 of 78 models.

How much does Command A cost?

Command A cost $0.007 per question on average as billed in our 2026-10-27 run, reasoning tokens included.

What is Command A API pricing?

Command A is listed at $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.

What is the context window of Command A?

Command A accepts up to 256,000 tokens of context, according to OpenRouter's model catalogue.

Is Command A open source?

Yes. Command A is an open-weights model: Cohere publishes the weights, so you can run it yourself as well as through an API.

Command A is made by Cohere. We tested it through OpenRouter using the model ID cohere/command-a.

Where can I use Command A via API?

Through OpenRouter, Command A is served by 1 host: Cohere.

CohereOpen weightsReleased 13 Mar 2025

Command A benchmarks, speed and API pricing

Reviewed by LLM Verifications team · Tested 27 Oct 2026

Compare

Available through OpenRouter on

Cohere$2.5 in · $10 out

Intelligence45.0% correct#49 of 72

Speed7tok/s#71 of 72

Cost$0.007per question#56 of 72List $2.5 in · $10 out per 1M

Verbosity616tokens per question#20 of 72

Summary

Answers 36 of 80 verification questions correctly (45.0%), placing #49 of 72 models tested on the current suite.
Generates 7 output tokens per second, faster than 1% of the models we measure.
Starts responding after 1.8 s (median time to first token).
Costs $0.007 per question as billed, #15 cheapest of 31 models priced over $1 per 1M tokens.

Specifications

Reasoning: No
Input: text
Output: text
Context window: 256k tokens
Weights: Open weights
Knowledge cutoff: 31 Aug 2024
OpenRouter ID: cohere/command-a
Last tested: 27 Oct 2026

Peer group: 34 models with a blended list price over $1 per 1M tokens (3 input : 1 output). Charts below compare Command A with all models; cost and speed charts focus on this peer group.

Intelligence

Verification score: the share of 80 questions from open datasets answered correctly. See the benchmark datasets.

Score vs. cost per question

Command A circled; dashed line joins models no cheaper model beats

Score vs. end-to-end response time

Command A circled · accurate and quick sits top left

Score vs. tokens per question

Command A circled · output tokens, reasoning included

Verification score

All models tested on the current suite

61 more models · see the full leaderboard

Cost

Average cost of one question, split into input, reasoning and answer tokens at each model's list price. Reasoning tokens are billed as output.

Cost per question, by token type

Peer group: blended price over $1

Input Reasoning Answer

Cost per question, as billed

All models · lower is better

1Granite 4.0 Micro$0.000051
2gpt-oss-20b$0.000066
3Granite 4.2 8B$0.000077
4Nova Micro 1.0$0.000087
5Mercury 2.5$0.00011
6Phi 4$0.00012
7gpt-oss-120b$0.00013
8GLM 5.3 Flash$0.00015
9Ministral 3 3B 2512$0.00019
10GPT-6 Luna$0.00025
56Command A$0.007

61 more models · see the full leaderboard

Speed and latency

Median of 3 streamed runs of the same prompt, measured 25 Oct 2026.

Output speed

Peer group (over $1) · higher is better

18 more models · see the full leaderboard

Time to first token

Peer group (over $1) · lower is better

20 more models · see the full leaderboard

End-to-end response time

Peer group (over $1) · lower is better

20 more models · see the full leaderboard

Latency vs. output speed

Command A circled · quick to start and fast sits top left

Results by category

Questions answered correctly in each category

Science12/30

Engineering3/15

Medicine6/11

Economics6/9

Law3/6

Humanities & social science6/9

Compare Command A

Head to head with its closest rivals, other Cohere models and the top models overall.

Hosts and prices

Every host serving this model through OpenRouter, from OpenRouter's catalogue

Host	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Max output	Quantization
Cohere	$2.5	$10	256k	8k	—

Sources

Scores, speed and billed cost are our own measurements. Prices, context window and hosts come from OpenRouter's catalogue on the test date.

Command A on OpenRouter: list prices and hosts
Model card on Hugging Face: weights and licence
SuperGPQA (paper): 50 of the questions, ODC-BY 1.0
MMLU-Pro (paper): 30 of the questions, MIT
OpenRouter generation records: where billed cost and native token counts come from
Our methodology and editorial standards

Command A: frequently asked questions

How accurate is Command A?: Command A answered 36 of 80 questions correctly (45.0%) in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #49 of 78 models.
How fast is Command A?: Command A generated a median of 7 output tokens per second in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #71 of 78. Median time to first token was 1.8 s.
What is the latency of Command A?: Command A had a median time to first token of 1.8 s in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #61 of 78 models.
How much does Command A cost?: Command A cost $0.007 per question on average as billed in our 2026-10-27 run, reasoning tokens included.
What is Command A API pricing?: Command A is listed at $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.
What is the context window of Command A?: Command A accepts up to 256,000 tokens of context, according to OpenRouter's model catalogue.
Is Command A open source?: Yes. Command A is an open-weights model: Cohere publishes the weights, so you can run it yourself as well as through an API.
Who makes Command A?: Command A is made by Cohere. We tested it through OpenRouter using the model ID cohere/command-a.
Where can I use Command A via API?: Through OpenRouter, Command A is served by 1 host: Cohere.

CohereOpen weightsReleased 13 Mar 2025

Command A benchmarks, speed and API pricing

Reviewed by LLM Verifications team · Tested 27 Oct 2026

Compare

Available through OpenRouter on

Cohere$2.5 in · $10 out

Intelligence45.0% correct#49 of 72

Speed7tok/s#71 of 72

Cost$0.007per question#56 of 72List $2.5 in · $10 out per 1M

Verbosity616tokens per question#20 of 72

Summary

Answers 36 of 80 verification questions correctly (45.0%), placing #49 of 72 models tested on the current suite.
Generates 7 output tokens per second, faster than 1% of the models we measure.
Starts responding after 1.8 s (median time to first token).
Costs $0.007 per question as billed, #15 cheapest of 31 models priced over $1 per 1M tokens.

Specifications

Reasoning: No
Input: text
Output: text
Context window: 256k tokens
Weights: Open weights
Knowledge cutoff: 31 Aug 2024
OpenRouter ID: cohere/command-a
Last tested: 27 Oct 2026

Peer group: 34 models with a blended list price over $1 per 1M tokens (3 input : 1 output). Charts below compare Command A with all models; cost and speed charts focus on this peer group.

Intelligence

Verification score: the share of 80 questions from open datasets answered correctly. See the benchmark datasets.

Score vs. cost per question

Command A circled; dashed line joins models no cheaper model beats

Score vs. end-to-end response time

Command A circled · accurate and quick sits top left

Score vs. tokens per question

Command A circled · output tokens, reasoning included

Verification score

All models tested on the current suite

61 more models · see the full leaderboard

Cost

Average cost of one question, split into input, reasoning and answer tokens at each model's list price. Reasoning tokens are billed as output.

Cost per question, by token type

Peer group: blended price over $1

Input Reasoning Answer

Cost per question, as billed

All models · lower is better

1Granite 4.0 Micro$0.000051
2gpt-oss-20b$0.000066
3Granite 4.2 8B$0.000077
4Nova Micro 1.0$0.000087
5Mercury 2.5$0.00011
6Phi 4$0.00012
7gpt-oss-120b$0.00013
8GLM 5.3 Flash$0.00015
9Ministral 3 3B 2512$0.00019
10GPT-6 Luna$0.00025
56Command A$0.007

61 more models · see the full leaderboard

Speed and latency

Median of 3 streamed runs of the same prompt, measured 25 Oct 2026.

Output speed

Peer group (over $1) · higher is better

18 more models · see the full leaderboard

Time to first token

Peer group (over $1) · lower is better

20 more models · see the full leaderboard

End-to-end response time

Peer group (over $1) · lower is better

20 more models · see the full leaderboard

Latency vs. output speed

Command A circled · quick to start and fast sits top left

Results by category

Questions answered correctly in each category

Science12/30

Engineering3/15

Medicine6/11

Economics6/9

Law3/6

Humanities & social science6/9

Compare Command A

Head to head with its closest rivals, other Cohere models and the top models overall.

Hosts and prices

Every host serving this model through OpenRouter, from OpenRouter's catalogue

Host	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context	Max output	Quantization
Cohere	$2.5	$10	256k	8k	—

Sources

Scores, speed and billed cost are our own measurements. Prices, context window and hosts come from OpenRouter's catalogue on the test date.

Command A on OpenRouter: list prices and hosts
Model card on Hugging Face: weights and licence
SuperGPQA (paper): 50 of the questions, ODC-BY 1.0
MMLU-Pro (paper): 30 of the questions, MIT
OpenRouter generation records: where billed cost and native token counts come from
Our methodology and editorial standards

Command A: frequently asked questions

How accurate is Command A?: Command A answered 36 of 80 questions correctly (45.0%) in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #49 of 78 models.
How fast is Command A?: Command A generated a median of 7 output tokens per second in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #71 of 78. Median time to first token was 1.8 s.
What is the latency of Command A?: Command A had a median time to first token of 1.8 s in our 2026-10-27 run, ranking #61 of 78 models.
How much does Command A cost?: Command A cost $0.007 per question on average as billed in our 2026-10-27 run, reasoning tokens included.
What is Command A API pricing?: Command A is listed at $2.5 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens on OpenRouter.
What is the context window of Command A?: Command A accepts up to 256,000 tokens of context, according to OpenRouter's model catalogue.
Is Command A open source?: Yes. Command A is an open-weights model: Cohere publishes the weights, so you can run it yourself as well as through an API.
Who makes Command A?: Command A is made by Cohere. We tested it through OpenRouter using the model ID cohere/command-a.
Where can I use Command A via API?: Through OpenRouter, Command A is served by 1 host: Cohere.