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Command A

Command A is an open-weights enterprise model from Cohere built for tool use, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual tasks across a context window of 256K tokens.

Tool Use
index.ts
import { streamText } from 'ai'


const result = streamText({
  model: 'cohere/command-a',
  prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'
})
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is Command A's hybrid attention architecture?

    It combines three sliding-window attention layers (4,096-token window each) with one global attention layer that has no positional constraint. The sliding windows handle local context efficiently. The global layer models long-range dependencies across the full context window of 256K tokens.

  • How does Command A compare to Command R+ 08-2024?

    Command A delivers higher throughput than Command R+ 08-2024. Cohere positions it as the successor tuned for agentic performance and enterprise task execution.

  • Which languages does Command A support?

    23 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, and Persian.

  • Does Command A support citation generation natively?

    Yes. Citation generation is a built-in feature, so you can ground outputs in retrieved or cited sources without bolting on a separate citation stack.

  • What is the knowledge cutoff date for Command A?

    June 2024.

  • Is Command A open-weights?

    Yes. Cohere released it as an open-weights model. On Hugging Face it lives under CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025.

  • How much does Command A cost on AI Gateway?

    See the pricing section on this page for today's rates. AI Gateway exposes each provider's pricing for Command A.