Cohere Command A
Cohere Command A
Version: 1
CohereLast updated April 2025
Command A is a highly efficient generative model that excels at agentic and multilingual use cases.
RAG
Multilingual
Command A is Cohere's flagship generative model, optimized for companies that require fast, secure, and highly-performant AI solutions. Command A delivers maximum performance with minimal hardware costs when compared to leading proprietary and open-weights models, such as GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3. For private deployments, Command A excels on business-critical agentic and multilingual tasks, and can be deployed on just 2 GPUs, compared to competitive models that typically require as many as 32 GPUs. Command A supports 23 languages and comes with 256k context length (in tokens). In head-to-head human evaluation across business, STEM, and coding tasks, Command A matches or outperforms its larger and slower competitors – while offering superior throughput and increased efficiency. Command A supports 23 languages and comes with 256k context length (in tokens).

Intended Use

Primary Use Cases

Command A is built to help businesses and employees with the things they do every day. It excels at agentic and RAG use cases, as well at general tasks. Command A has been trained in 23 languages including Arabic, German, Japanese, and Korean.
  1. Knowledge assistant for a pharmacy: Command A supports a pharmacy with a knowledge assistant that knows the company's products, policies, and procedures. The pharmacists, store associates, customer support teams use the knowledge assistant to shorten onboarding ramp time and reduce time spent on tasks.
  2. Demand forecasting for inventory management: The model improves demand forecasting with both quantitative data from inventory and accounting systems as well as qualitative data from the category manager and from 3rd party analyst commentary.
    This increases inventory turnover and reduces holding costs and stock-outs.
  3. eCommerce search: Give customers a chatbot/search engine enhanced with semantic search to find relevant products and information faster. This increases conversion rates and reduces wait times.
Model Specifications
Context Length131072
Quality Index0.77
LicenseCustom
Last UpdatedApril 2025
Input TypeText
Output TypeText
PublisherCohere
Languages10 Languages