Command A
Command A is an open-weights 111B parameter model with a 256k context window focused on delivering great performance across agentic, multilingual, and coding use cases. Compared to other leading proprietary and open-weights models Command A delivers maximum performance with minimum hardware costs, excelling on business-critical agentic and multilingual tasks.
Context window
This model accepts 256K tokens in one request (~192K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- FitsSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 256,000 tokens (256K)
- Max output tokens
- 8,192 tokens (8K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Cohere
- Model family
- Command
- Release date
- Mar 2025
Capabilities
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- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Not supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Not supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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Frequently asked questions
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