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Command A+: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

Command A+ is a language model from Cohere, released in May 2026, with multimodal input.

Command A+ is Cohere's open-source sparse Mixture-of-Experts model for enterprise agentic, multilingual, multimodal, and reasoning-heavy tasks. It has 218B total parameters with 25B active parameters, supports text and image inputs,

Command A+ benchmarks

Rankings

Quality Tracker

Command A+ Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Command A+ model size

Command A+ has 218 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
218B
Frontier (200B+)
218B
1B7B70B405B

Command A+ API

Available from the model provider

Command A+ has an official provider API. It is not currently routed through the LLM Stats gateway.

Read the official API documentation

Command A+ latency

Command A+ time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Command A+ examples

Recent arena outputs from Command A+, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Command A+ license

Command A+ is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 218.0B parameters.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
218.0B

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

Command A+ resources

Official sources for Command A+: api documentation, official playground, official launch post, source repository, model weights.

Command A+ vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Command A+ are LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Nova 2 Pro, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Command A+

Models ranked just above and below Command A+ by LLM Stats score.

 

LongCat-Flash-Thinking

Score pending
 

Nova 2 Pro

Score pending
 

Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking

Score pending
 

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Score pending
 

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Score pending
 

Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Command A+.

When was Command A+ released?

Command A+ was released on May 20, 2026 by Cohere. This is the official Command A+ release date tracked on LLM Stats.

Is Command A+ available via API?

Yes, Command A+ is available via API. See the official documentation for authentication and endpoint details.

How big is Command A+?

Command A+ has 218 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Command A+?

Command A+ was created by Cohere.

What is the license for Command A+?

Command A+ is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Command A+ multimodal?

Yes, Command A+ is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where is the Command A+ paper or technical report?

Command A+ has a paper or technical report available at https://cohere.com/blog/command-a-plus. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Command A+ against?

Common Command A+ comparisons include Command A+ vs LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Command A+ vs Nova 2 Pro, Command A+ vs Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.