Command A Reasoning: pricing, context window and benchmarks
Command A Reasoning is a multimodal model from Cohere. It offers a 400,000-token context window, costs $13.74 per million input tokens and $51.49 per million output tokens, and averages 80.2 across the index's benchmark suite.
Pricing
Command A Reasoning costs $13.74 per million input tokens and $51.49 per million output tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix works out to about $23.18 per million tokens. Cached input is listed at $1.38 per million tokens.
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $13.74 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | $51.49 | per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $1.38 | per 1M tokens |
| Blended 3:1 | $23.18 | estimate per 1M tokens |
| 1M in + 1M out | $65.23 | 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 | 80.2 | 178 | 70th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3 | 112 | 81th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 71.1 | 94 | 84th | |
| HumanEval | 83.6 | 141 | 77th | |
| MATH-500 | 85.2 | 105 | 83th | |
| AIME 2025 | 74.2 | 171 | 72th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 74.1 | 107 | 82th | |
| IFEval | 87.8 | 106 | 82th | |
| TruthfulQA | 83.4 | 95 | 84th | |
| HellaSwag | 87.6 | 157 | 74th | |
| MMMU | 78.2 | 90 | 85th | |
| Arena Elo | 1435.9 | 106 | 82th |
What Command A Reasoning is good for
Command A Reasoning 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 $13.74 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.
- Reasoning-oriented profile, useful for multi-step problems and structured analysis.
- 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 $13.74 per million tokens.
How it compares
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command A Reasoning | Cohere | 400000 | $13.74 | 80.2 |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 Base | DeepSeek | 128000 | $5.05 | 80.2 |
| Doubao 1.5 Pro Pro | ByteDance | 128000 | $14.10 | 80.2 |
| GLM-4.6 | Zhipu AI | 128000 | $5.10 | 80.2 |
| Kimi K1.5 Chat | Moonshot AI | 128000 | $5.11 | 80.2 |
| MiniMax-M2 Chat | MiniMax | 200000 | $5.02 | 80.2 |
FAQ
How much does Command A Reasoning cost?
Command A Reasoning is listed at $13.74 per million input tokens and $51.49 per million output tokens. Cached input is $1.38 per million tokens. A blended 3:1 input-to-output mix is about $23.18 per million tokens.
What is the context window of Command A Reasoning?
Command A Reasoning has a context window of 400,000 tokens and can emit up to 65,536 output tokens per request in this index.
Is Command A Reasoning open weights?
No. Command A Reasoning is a proprietary model with a proprietary licence, so you cannot download the weights.
How does Command A Reasoning score on benchmarks?
Command A Reasoning averages 80.2 across the scored benchmarks in this index, ranking #112 of 600 models. Its strongest relative result is Arena Elo at 1435.9.
What is Command A Reasoning best for?
Command A Reasoning 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 $13.74 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.