Command A API pricing
Standard tier, blended at 3:1 input to output: $4.38 per million tokens.
OpenRouter charges $2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens for Command A. It is sold in 2 forms, from $4.38 to $4.38 blended; the table below shows what each costs against standard. 2 of the models nearest it in price are cheaper on a blended basis.
Every tier of Command A
Blended at 3:1 input to output. The last column compares each against the standard tier.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Standard | command-a | OpenRouter | $2.50 | $10.00 | Not listed | $4.38 | Standard | ↗ |
| Dated snapshot | command-a-03-2025 | Cohere | $2.50 | $10.00 | Not listed | $4.38 | Same | ↗ |
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Which tier to use
What each costs against standard in our data, and the job it is for.
Dated snapshots
One dated snapshot (command-a-03-2025) is listed at the same price as standard. A snapshot pins the model to one release, while the undated name moves to newer releases when the vendor updates it. Pin a snapshot in production when your prompts depend on exact output; use the undated name to pick up improvements automatically.
Against the models nearest in price
Standard tiers, blended at a 3:1 input to output ratio.
| Source | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command A This model | OpenRouter | $2.50 | $10.00 | 256,000 | $4.38 | ↗ |
| GPT-4o | OpenAI | $2.50 | $10.00 | 128,000 | $4.38 | ↗ |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | OpenAI | $2.00 | $12.00 | 922,000 | $4.50 | ↗ |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1,000,000 | $4.00 | ↗ |
| Claude Sonnet 5 | Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1,000,000 | $4.00 | ↗ |
| GPT-5.2 | OpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 | 272,000 | $4.81 | ↗ |
| GPT-5.3 Chat (latest) | OpenAI | $1.75 | $14.00 | 128,000 | $4.81 | ↗ |
| GPT-5.2 Codex | OpenRouter | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400,000 | $4.81 | ↗ |
| GPT-5.3 Codex | OpenRouter | $1.75 | $14.00 | 400,000 | $4.81 | ↗ |
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Questions
How much does Command A cost per million tokens?
$2.50 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens. At a 3:1 input to output mix that blends to $4.38. Checked 28 Oct 2026.
What would Command A cost for a real workload?
A thousand requests a day at 2,000 input and 600 output tokens each comes to $330.00 a month on the standard tier.
What is the context window for Command A?
256,000 tokens of input, with up to 8,192 tokens of output.
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