LLM Reference

Command A+

command-a-plus-05-2026

Researched today

Last refreshed 2026-05-22. Next refresh: weekly.

Open SourceMultimodalRAGAgentsLong contextVisionJSON / Tool useOpen Source

Command A+ is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: RAG task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-05-22.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
  • Workloads that can use a 128K context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

-

Cohere API per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-05-22

Researched today

fresh

Top use-case fit

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

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Cohere API--
ServerlessProvisionedPartial

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.

About

Command A+ is Cohere's open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts model for enterprise agentic, multimodal, multilingual, RAG, and reasoning-heavy workloads. It combines text and image inputs, tool use, structured outputs, 48-language support, and hardware-efficient deployment that can run on one B200 or two H100 GPUs.

Command A+ has a 128K-token context window.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyCommand
Released2026-05-20
Parameters218B total / 25B active
Context128K
Max output64,000
Architecturemoe
Knowledge cutoff2025-04
Specializationgeneral
LicenseApache 2.0
Trainingpretrained

Created by

Empowering developers with advanced language AI.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Founded 2022
Website

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