Head-to-head comparison
Command A (Cohere) and Command A+ (Cohere) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.
Snapshot as of 23 September 2026
As of 23 September 2026, Command A+ holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#87 vs #138); Command A+ is 6.7× cheaper per output token ($1.50/1M vs $10.00/1M); and Command A offers the longer context window (256K vs 192K tokens).
Evidence: 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards · 1 public benchmark observation across 1 board. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.
Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.
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Command A+ ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 23 September 2026: #87 against #138. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.
Command A+ is cheaper on output tokens: $1.50/1M against $10.00/1M. Input tokens are $2.50/1M for Command A and $0.30/1M for Command A+. Prices are the lowest listed API offer ModelCap observed, in USD per million tokens. For 1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each (2M input + 0.5M output), the listed-rate estimate is $10.00 for Command A versus $1.35 for Command A+. Command A+ costs 86.5% less in this scenario. This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the selected endpoint before budgeting.
Command A has the larger context window: 256K tokens against 192K.
The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.
Command A: Gated access. Command A+: API only. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.
ModelCap currently lists 1 API provider for Command A and 1 for Command A+, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.
Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 23 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.