Command A Nano: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Command A Nano is a mid-range model from Cohere. It offers a 8,192-token context window, costs $5.90 per million input tokens and $25.76 per million output tokens, and averages 66.3 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Command A Nano costs $5.90 per million input tokens and $25.76 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $10.87 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $0.62 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.90 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $25.76 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.62 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $10.87 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $31.66 | 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 | 69.8 | 397 | 34th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 61.4 | 394 | 34th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 54.5 | 387 | 36th | |
| HumanEval | 71.2 | 385 | 36th | |
| MATH-500 | 68.8 | 390 | 35th | |
| AIME 2025 | 57.7 | 403 | 33th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 54.9 | 409 | 32th | |
| IFEval | 76.9 | 378 | 37th | |
| TruthfulQA | 71.5 | 388 | 35th | |
| HellaSwag | 77.1 | 414 | 31th | |
| MMMU | 65.1 | 380 | 37th | |
| Arena Elo | 1323.3 | 395 | 34th |
What Command A Nano is good for
Command A Nano is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $5.90 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.
Strengths
- Accepts more than text, including image input where the provider supports it.
Trade-offs
- Proprietary licence: you cannot download the weights or self-host the model.
- Context window of 8,192 tokens is small for long-document work.
- Average benchmark score is below the index median; test it on your own task.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nemotron Nano | NVIDIA | 8192 | $2.24 | 66.6 |
| Command A Nano | Cohere | 8192 | $5.90 | 66.3 |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 8B | DeepSeek | 32768 | $2.02 | 66.2 |
| Nemotron Nano Chat | NVIDIA | 32768 | $2.21 | 66.2 |
| Embed 4 Max | Cohere | 8192 | $5.68 | 66.1 |
| Sonar Pro Nano | Perplexity | 32768 | $5.50 | 66.1 |
FAQ
How much does Command A Nano cost?
Command A Nano is listed at $5.90 per million input tokens and $25.76 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.62 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $10.87 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Command A Nano?
Command A Nano has a context window of 8,192 tokens and can emit up to 8,192 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Command A Nano open weights?
No. Command A Nano is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Command A Nano score on benchmarks?
Command A Nano averages 66.3 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #392 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1323.3.
What is Command A Nano best for?
Command A Nano is a general-purpose model in the index. It handles text generation, summarization and question answering, and it can be a sensible default when you need a balance of quality, price and context. At $5.90 per million input tokens with a 8,192-token window, check its benchmark profile against the specific task before committing.