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Command A

Provided by Cohere
Pay-as-you-go

Command A is our most performant model to date, excelling at tool use, agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual use cases. Command A has a context length of 256K, only requires two GPUs to run, and has 150% higher throughput compared to Command R+ 08-2024.

Model specs

Model ID
command-a-03-2025
Context length
256K
Max output
8K
I/O modalities
Released
2025-03

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API endpoints

One MixRoute gateway, OpenAI-compatible

  • OpenAI-compatible /v1/chat/completions POST

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Pricing

Flat rate, unit: /1M Tokens

Input

$2.5000 /1M Tokens

Completion

$10.0000 /1M Tokens

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Selection summary

Quickly judge whether it fits your workload

What is this model good for?

Command A is our most performant model to date, excelling at tool use, agents

Command A is our most performant model to date, excelling at tool use, agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual use cases. Command A has a context length of 256K, only requires two GPUs to run, and has 150% higher throughput compared to Command R+ 08-2024.

What should you check before using it?

256,000 context, 8,000 output tokens

Cohere model that supports tool calling, structured output and streaming. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-08.

Why use it through MixRoute?

command-a-03-2025 runs tools and structured output here

Tool calling and structured output run on that route as well. MixRoute serves command-a-03-2025 on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint /v1/chat/completions; point your existing client at https://api.mixroute.ai/v1 with the model ID command-a-03-2025 and re-run your integration tests.

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Capabilities & compatibility

Unconfirmed capabilities stay "Unknown," no guesses

Available:

Tool calling

command-a-03-2025 supports function and tool calls.

EX Send a tools definition; the response returns tool_calls to execute and feed results back.
Available:

Structured output

command-a-03-2025 can produce JSON-formatted output on demand.

EX response_format: { type: "json_schema" } forces valid JSON output.
Available:

Streaming

command-a-03-2025 supports streamed responses.

EX stream: true streams tokens incrementally, so chat UIs render as they arrive.
Available:

OpenAI SDK

Call command-a-03-2025 through MixRoute's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

EX Change base_url to https://api.mixroute.ai/v1; everything else follows the OpenAI style.

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Token cost estimator

Live estimate from this page's pricing, not an actual bill

This model has no cache-read price; caching is not counted

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FAQ

Before switching production traffic to command-a-03-2025, run a pilot on a representative slice of your traffic and check output quality, latency at peak concurrency, and cost per request. Verify the error and retry behaviour, and confirm the request limits you depend on match your plan.

One endpoint, a testable decision

Test this model and alternate routes with the same request format

Start from a real workload, then let quality, total cost, and failure conditions decide whether to send production traffic.