As of: 2026-11-13 13:49 CET.
Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/
Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/m/command-a/

# Command A (03-2025) and variants

Cohere, Command A family. Status: legacy. Type: language model. Released: 2025-03. Training cutoff: not published.

## How to call it

| Provider | Model id | Endpoint | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohere API | `command-a-03-2025` | https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat | https://docs.cohere.com/docs/command-a |
| OpenRouter | `cohere/command-a` |  | https://openrouter.ai/cohere/command-a |
| Hugging Face |  |  | https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025 |

## Pricing

- Input: $2.50 per 1M tokens
- Output: $10 per 1M tokens
- Unit as published: per 1M tokens (USD) on OpenRouter; Cohere first-party price not verified
- Source: https://openrouter.ai/cohere/command-a
- Last checked: 2026-09-29

## Specs

- Input: text
- Output: text
- Context window: 256,000 tokens
- Max output: 8,000 tokens
- Open weights: yes
- Licence: cc-by-nc-4.0

## What it has not seen

- No published training cutoff. Counted from its release (2025-03): at least 2,028 AI events since (471 major, 90 historic), as of 2026-11-13.
- Everything since February 2025: https://postcutoff.com/since/2025-02/

## What stands out

- Enterprise model on two GPUs: 111B model that runs on only two A100/H100 GPUs, 150% higher throughput than Command R+ 08-2024. Source: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/command-a
- Specialized variants (found after launch): Separate ids command-a-reasoning-08-2025 (256K/32K out), command-a-vision-07-2025 (image input) and command-a-translate-08-2025 (23-language MT). Source: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models

## Notes

Superseded by Command A+ (May 2026). Variants listed in notes/capabilities share this file. Weights are non-commercial (CC-BY-NC).

Tool use, RAG and multilingual agents; still available but Command A+ is newer.

```bash
curl https://api.cohere.com/v2/chat -H "Authorization: Bearer $CO_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 -d '{"model":"command-a-03-2025","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
```

Sources: https://docs.cohere.com/docs/models , https://docs.cohere.com/docs/command-a

Model page: https://postcutoff.com/m/command-a/