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Command A+ cohere
Release timeline
Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.
- 2026-09-22 · API only source seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC
- next · Next expected: additional third-party providers (closed weights; none expected on Hugging Face)
Description
Command A+ is Cohere's flagship model for enterprise agentic workflows. It accepts text and image inputs with a 192K context window, supports native tool calling with strict tool schemas, structured...
via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.
Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints
Hosted endpoints observed for Command A+, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.30/M.
| Provider | Model ref | Context | Quant | $/M in | $/M out | tok/s | TTFT | Tools | Status | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere openrouter | cohere/command-a-plus | 188K | unknown | $0.30 | $1.50 | — | — | yes | live | 2026-10-24 |
No third-party providers observed beyond the lab's own endpoints. Cache-read price $0.15/M (source, observed 2026-10-24).
Facts
| Context length | 192,000 tokens (188K) · OpenRouter listing |
|---|---|
| Modalities | text + image → text |
| Max completion tokens | 64,000 |
| Supported parameters | frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, max_tokens, presence_penalty, reasoning, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tools, top_k, top_p |
| Openness | Closed weights · open-weights lab, name matches a closed line |
| Stage | API only |
| Confidence | medium |
| Pricing (USD per M tokens) |
in $0.30 · out $1.50 · cache read $0.15 OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC |
Open alternatives 5
Nearest open-weights models by modality, context and price on this watch list. Not a quality ranking.
| Model | Org | Params | Context | $/M in | License | Why it is here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | Qwen | 8.77B | 256K | $0.25 | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), cheaper input price ($0.25/M vs $0.3/M), vision input |
| Qwen3.5-397B-A17B | Qwen | 403B | 256K | $0.39 | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), vision input |
| Kimi-K2.6 | moonshotai | 1.03T | 256K | $0.45 | other | similar context (262K), vision input |
| Qwen3.6-27B | Qwen | 27.8B | 256K | $0.20 | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), cheaper input price ($0.2/M vs $0.3/M), vision input |
| Qwen3.5-4B | Qwen | 4.66B | 256K | — | apache-2.0 | similar context (262K), vision input |
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Sources
- openrouter cohere/command-a-plus · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC
Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC