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Command A

Command A is a Cohere open-weights model, released 13 Mar 2025. Its best configuration ranks #616 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 41.8 ±4.2, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 294 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in human preference (52) and lowest in coding (32). At $4.38 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models. Output speed of 55 tokens per second puts it slower than most, with a first answer in 1.7 s. Last measured 22 Oct 2026.

Blended price
$4.38/M
$2.50 in · $10.00 out
Output speed
55 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
1.74 s
first token 0.43 s
Context
256k
Full answer
11 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
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Released
13 Mar 2025
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index42
  2. Reasoning41
  3. Coding32
  4. Agents & tools50
  5. Maths42
  6. Knowledge39
  7. Instruction following40
  8. Human preference52
  9. Long context35
  10. Composite37

How its index has moved

9 Sept 2026 to 21 Oct 2026
384247

The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Coding

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
Arena Coding1389#204Arena (LMArena)
LiveCodeBench35.1%#131Vals AI
SWE-bench (Vals)not in index7.8%#85Vals AI

Maths

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
AIME (Vals)13.3%#83Vals AI
MGSM85.7%#63Vals AI
MATH 500not in index76.2%#42Vals AI
Arena Maths1310#221Arena (LMArena)

Knowledge

Instruction following

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
IFBench36.5%#300Artificial Analysis
Arena Instruction Followingnot in index1342#198Arena (LMArena)

Human preference

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
Arena Text1354#196Arena (LMArena)
Arena Creative Writingnot in index1336#182Arena (LMArena)
Arena Multi-turnnot in index1360#185Arena (LMArena)
Arena Longer Queriesnot in index1370#186Arena (LMArena)

Long context

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
AA-LCR21.3%#427Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.27.0#498Artificial Analysis

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Cohere39 tok/s0.37 s$2.50$10.00256k–

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0040–7.2 s
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.036–12.7 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.030–29.2 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.190–1.3 min
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0070–5.4 s

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Questions people ask

What are Command A's benchmark scores?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Command A scores 41.8 ±4.2 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in human preference (52) and weakest in coding (32). That rests on 20 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
How does Command A rank?
Command A is #616 of 785 ranked configurations on 24 Oct 2026. 294 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
How much does Command A cost per 1M tokens?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Command A costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $10.00 per 1M output tokens, $4.38 blended (three input tokens per output token).
When was Command A released?
Cohere released Command A on 13 Mar 2025.

Data as of 24 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Command A: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 24 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/command-a.