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Cohere: Command A Reasoning

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Command A Reasoning is a reasoning model from Cohere released on Aug 21, 2025. It reads text and writes text, with a 256K token context window and up to 32K tokens per reply.

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It costs $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

3 providers serve it, including SAP AI Core and NanoGPT. The lowest input price is $0.63 per million tokens at SAP AI Core.

Modalities
In / out price
$2.50 / $10 per 1M
Context
256K
Max output
32K
Released
Aug 21, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 2024
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Command A Reasoning pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$2.50 / 1M tokens
Output$10 / 1M tokens

Command A Reasoning providers

3 providers serve it, including SAP AI Core and NanoGPT. The lowest input price is $0.63 per million tokens at SAP AI Core. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.

ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /MContextMax output
Cohere First party$2.50$10–256K32K
SAP AI Core$0.63$5.05–256K32K
NanoGPT$2.50$10$1.25256K8K

What Command A Reasoning costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Command A Reasoning per month
$293
Without caching
$293
Per request
$0.0097

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Command A Reasoning through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Reasoningreasoning
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Command A Reasoning questions

How much does the Command A Reasoning API cost?

$2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Command A Reasoning?

256,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 32,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Which providers serve Command A Reasoning?

3 providers serve it, including SAP AI Core and NanoGPT. The lowest input price is $0.63 per million tokens at SAP AI Core. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.

Does Command A Reasoning support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Command A Reasoning open source?

Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.

When was Command A Reasoning released?

Aug 21, 2025, with training data up to Jun 2024.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. Independent scores from my hand checked rankings, sources linked above. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Command A Reasoning?

I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.

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