CohereReleased on May 20, 2026

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

LLM Stats Logollm-stats.com - Sat Jul 18 2026
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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
 

Nova 2 Omni

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.