How much does Command A cost per month?

For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Command A costs about $2,250 per month at Cohere's list prices ($2.50 per 1M input tokens, $10.00 per 1M output tokens).

Does Command A support prompt caching?

No cache read price is published for Command A.

How long is Command A's context window?

Command A accepts up to 256,000 tokens (256K) of context and returns up to 8,000 tokens per response.

Command A API Pricing

Cohere · released Mar 13, 2025 · 256K context · API model ID command-a-03-2025

Command A by Cohere API pricing: $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens (provider list price via models.dev, Oct 10, 2026).

Prices

Command A prices, USD per 1M tokens
Price	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$2.50
Output	$10.00
Cache read	Not published
Cache write	Not published

Cohere's list price for its own API, as compiled by models.dev and checked Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 UTC. Prices on cloud platforms and resellers can differ. Provider documentation

Estimated monthly cost

$2,250

per month

per day: $75.00
per request: $0.0075

Cost = input tokens × input price + output tokens × output price, 30 days a month. Cached input uses the cache read price. Cache write fees are not included.

Compare this workload across models

Monthly cost by workload

Workload	Per month
Chatbot1,000 in / 500 out tokens, 10,000 requests a day	$2,250/mo
RAG8,000 in / 500 out tokens, 5,000 requests a day	$3,750/mo
Coding agent50,000 in / 2,000 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 80% cached input	$4,350/mo

Context and capabilities

Context: 256,000 tokens
Max output: 8,000 tokens
Input: text
Output: text
Knowledge cutoff: Jun 1, 2024
Open weights: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Reasoning: No
Structured outputs: No

Capabilities and limits as listed by models.dev.

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Price history

No price changes since we started tracking on Oct 8, 2026.

Questions

How much does Command A cost per month?: For a chatbot handling 10,000 requests a day with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, Command A costs about $2,250 per month at Cohere's list prices ($2.50 per 1M input tokens, $10.00 per 1M output tokens).
Does Command A support prompt caching?: No cache read price is published for Command A.
How long is Command A's context window?: Command A accepts up to 256,000 tokens (256K) of context and returns up to 8,000 tokens per response.