Command A+ API Pricing
Cohere · context window 192K · prices updated 2026-09-29
Where Command A+ sits on price
At $1.50 per million output tokens, Command A+ is a mid tier model — 1.5× cheaper than the median output price of $2.20, which puts it cheaper than 61% and pricier than 39% of the models we track. It sits 3th cheapest of the 5 Cohere models we track. Output costs 5.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 50% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 50% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Command A+
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a mid-priced model — a $1.50/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win. | $0.0036 | $54.00 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0016 | $495 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0004 | $11.25 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Command A+ with caching and batch options.
Command A+ price history
Command A+'s price has not moved since we began tracking it on Sep 23, 2026 — 6 days of stability in a market where 88 of the 353 models we track have repriced over the same period. Cohere's lineup has held steady across the board.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Sep 23, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Command A+ vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.05 less per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Command A+ API cost?
Command A+ costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.15 per million (50% cheaper). That works out to roughly 666,667 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the support chatbot workload cost on Command A+?
Support chatbot — 500 conversations/day (5K in / 1.4K out) costs about $0.0036 per request and $54.00 per month on Command A+. Conversation history re-sent each turn — the classic prompt-caching win.
› What does it cost to fill Command A+'s 192K context window?
Sending 192K of input in a single request costs $0.0576 at $0.3 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.0288 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Command A+ worth the price?
Command A+ sits in the middle of the market (3 of 5 by price within Cohere). The honest test is a routing experiment: send the same 200 real requests to this model and to a tier below, and compare failure rate against the price gap — most teams find a majority of traffic never needed the pricier model.