Cohere
Cohere ranks #32 of 91 providers on BenchLeader by its best model, with 6 ranked models. Its best model is Command A+ at 50.5 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in instruction following. Prices run from $0.600 to $4.38 per million tokens blended; Command A+ is the cheapest ranked option. The fastest is Command A+ at 149 tokens per second. 18 of its 24 models ship open weights. It has shipped 10 dated releases, roughly one every 76 days; the last was 9 Sept 2026, so the next would be due between 24 Oct 2026 and 24 Dec 2026 on that pattern.
Enterprise-focused lab behind Command A and the Aya multilingual models, with a private-deployment emphasis.
- Provider rank
- #32
- by best model
- Best index
- 50.5
- Command A+
- Ranked models
- 6
- 18 open weights
- Cheapest ranked
- $0.600/M
- Command A+
Release timeline
Each model’s best configuration by release date. The top eight are labelled; hover any point for its name.
- Cohere6
Next release
Over the last two years Cohere shipped 10 distinct models, one every 76 days on median. The latest arrived on 9 Sept 2026.
If the cadence holds, the next one lands between 24 Oct 2026 and 24 Dec 2026.
An estimate from past release dates only. It knows nothing about roadmaps or announcements.
Fastest ranked model: Command A+ at 149 tok/s.
Models
Every Cohere model with a result, one row per model; switch to all configurations to see each reasoning effort.
| # | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Command A+open | 50.5±8 | $0.600 | 149 | 14 s | 192k | 2026-05-20 | 2026-05-20 |
| 2 | North Mini Code(Jun 2026)open | 45.9±7 | – | 60 | 34 s | 256k | 2026-06-09 | 2026-06-09 |
| 3 | Command Aopen ↗ | 41.8±4 | $4.38 | 51 | 1.72 s | 256k | 2025-03-13 | 2026-10-22 |
| 4 | Command R(Mar 2024)open | 38.2±10 | – | – | – | 128k | 2024-03-12 | 2026-10-22 |
| 5 | Tiny Aya Globalopen ↗ | 36.8±5 | – | – | – | 8k | 2026-02-17 | 2026-02-17 · stale |
| 6 | Command R+open | 34.3±9 | – | – | – | 128k | 2024-08-30 | 2026-10-22 |
| 7 | Aya Expanse 32Bopen ↗ | – | $0.750 | – | – | 128k | 2024-10-24 | 2026-10-22 |
| 8 | Aya Expanse 8Bopen ↗ | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-10-24 | 2026-10-22 |
| 9 | Command A Plus 05 2026open | – | $4.38 | – | – | 128k | 2026-05-20 | 2026-10-13 |
| 10 | Aya Vision 32B | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2026-10-19 |
| 11 | Command A 03 2025 Quality | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2025-03-14 · stale |
| 12 | Command A Reasoningthinkingopen | – | $4.38 | – | – | 256k | 2025-08-21 | – |
| 13 | Command R7b | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 14 | c4ai-command-r-08-2024 | – | – | – | – | – | 2024-08-30 | – |
| 15 | Cohere Command A | – | – | – | – | – | 2025-03-13 | – |
| 16 | Command A Translate 08 2025open ↗ | – | $4.38 | – | – | 8k | 2025-08-28 | – |
| 17 | Command A Vision 07 2025open ↗ | – | $4.38 | – | – | 128k | 2025-07-31 | – |
| 18 | Command R 08 2024open | – | $0.262 | 29 | 0.35 s | 128k | 2024-08-30 | – |
| 19 | Command R Plus 08 2024open | – | $4.38 | 16 | 0.39 s | 128k | 2024-08-30 | – |
| 20 | Command R7b 12 2024open | – | $0.066 | 65 | 0.23 s | 128k | 2024-12-13 | – |
| 21 | Command R7b Arabic 02 2025open | – | $0.066 | – | – | 128k | 2025-02-27 | – |
| 22 | North Mini Code 1.0open ↗ | – | – | – | – | 256k | 2026-06-09 | – |
| 23 | North Small Translate 09 2026open | – | – | – | – | 33k | 2026-09-09 | – |
| 24 | Transcribe 03 2026 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Latest news
- Cohere to Acquire AI Vulnerability Remediation Firm AisleBankInfoSecurity · 24 Oct 2026
- How Cohere Targets Agentic AI Security via AISLE AcquisitionAI Magazine · 21 Oct 2026
- Cohere moves to buy AI cybersecurity startup AisleReuters · 15 Oct 2026
- Why is Cohere Acquiring Agentic AI Cybersecurity firm AISLE?Cyber Magazine · 19 Oct 2026
- DeepSeek vs Mistral Large 4 vs Cohere: 9x Price Gap [2026] - tech-insider.orgtech-insider.org · 22 Oct 2026
- Cohere $2B-$3B at $20B Valuation: The Sovereign AI Lab Raises a Late-Stage Round Outside the US-China AxisYahoo Finance · 12 Sept 2026
- AI Startup Cohere Moves to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm AISLEPYMNTS.com · 15 Oct 2026
- Cohere Plans to Acquire Aisle to Add AI-Powered Code SecurityDevOps.com · 19 Oct 2026