Command A Max: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Command A Max is a multimodal model from Cohere. It offers a 400,000-token context window, costs $14.28 per million input tokens and $70.22 per million output tokens, and averages 79.9 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Command A Max costs $14.28 per million input tokens and $70.22 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $28.27 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $1.97 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $14.28 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $70.22 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.97 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $28.27 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $84.50 | estimate |
Benchmarks
Scores below are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale. Use them to compare relative position, not as official vendor results.
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3 | 73 | 88th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 74.5 | 153 | 75th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 69.7 | 116 | 81th | |
| HumanEval | 83.4 | 147 | 76th | |
| MATH-500 | 85.7 | 97 | 84th | |
| AIME 2025 | 77.2 | 126 | 79th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 73.1 | 124 | 79th | |
| IFEval | 86.7 | 140 | 77th | |
| TruthfulQA | 82.2 | 125 | 79th | |
| HellaSwag | 87.1 | 171 | 72th | |
| MMMU | 74.6 | 166 | 72th | |
| Arena Elo | 1443.7 | 91 | 85th |
What Command A Max is good for
Command A Max is tuned toward coding work. It is a reasonable candidate for code generation, review, debugging and repository-scale tasks, especially when paired with a retrieval layer. At $14.28 per million input tokens, it sits in the mid-range of the index, and the 400,000-token context window is enough for large files and multi-file diffs.
Strengths
- Large 400,000-token context window for long documents and agent traces.
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
- Coding benchmarks are a relative strength within its tier.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Premium input pricing at $14.28 per million tokens.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo | Anthropic | 200000 | $14.37 | 80.0 |
| ERNIE 4.5 | Baidu | 65536 | $13.44 | 80.0 |
| Command A Max | Cohere | 400000 | $14.28 | 79.9 |
| Reka Core Pro | Reka AI | 65536 | $13.44 | 79.9 |
| Magistral | Mistral AI | 200000 | $4.75 | 79.8 |
| Qwen3 Instruct | Alibaba Cloud | 1000000 | $5.06 | 79.8 |
FAQ
How much does Command A Max cost?
Command A Max is listed at $14.28 per million input tokens and $70.22 per million output tokens. Cached input is $1.97 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $28.27 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Command A Max?
Command A Max has a context window of 400,000 tokens and can emit up to 8,192 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Command A Max open weights?
No. Command A Max is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Command A Max score on benchmarks?
Command A Max averages 79.9 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #121 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1443.7.
What is Command A Max best for?
Command A Max is tuned toward coding work. It is a reasonable candidate for code generation, review, debugging and repository-scale tasks, especially when paired with a retrieval layer. At $14.28 per million input tokens, it sits in the mid-range of the index, and the 400,000-token context window is enough for large files and multi-file diffs.