Command A (03-2025)
Command A (03-2025) is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 256k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Command
- Released
- 2025-03-01
- Context
- 256k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06
- Specialization
- chat
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- CC-BY-NC-4.0Commercial use: non-commercial
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry
About
Cohere's most performant model to date. Command A excels at tool use, agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual use cases. It has 150% higher throughput compared to Command R+ (08-2024) and requires only two GPUs to run.
Command A (03-2025) is an open-weight model in the Command family. The structured metadata tracks a 256k-token context window, function calling, and tool use. This page tracks provider routes through Microsoft Foundry, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $2.5 input and $10 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Command A (03-2025) yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $2.50 | $10.00 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(5)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Command A (03-2025)?
Command A (03-2025) has a context window of 256k tokens.
How much does Command A (03-2025) cost?
Command A (03-2025) is available at $2.5/1M input tokens through Microsoft Foundry.
When was Command A (03-2025) released?
Command A (03-2025) was released on 2025-03-01.
Which providers offer Command A (03-2025)?
Command A (03-2025) is available from 1 provider: Microsoft Foundry.
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry