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Command A

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Command A is an enterprise-focused language model in Cohere's Command family with 111 billion parameters and a 256K-token context window, offered on the Cohere API and as research-use open weights on Hugging Face. Cohere positions it for tool use, agents, retrieval-augmented generation with citations and business tasks in 23 languages. [1] [2] [3] Primary source

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  • Released Primary source[2]date line; Availability [1]March 13, 2025
  • Status Available Primary source[4]Command table: command-a-03-2025, Live [3]
  • Successor of Command R+ 08-2024The release notes call Command R+ 08-2024 its predecessor. Primary source[1]second paragraph
  • Change · Context length Context window doubles to 256K tokens, from 128K for Command R+ 08-2024.Compared with Command R+ 08-2024 Primary source[4]Command table: command-a-03-2025
  • Change · Efficiency Cohere reports 150 percent higher throughput than Command R+ 08-2024 and says the model needs only two A100 or H100 GPUs.Compared with Command R+ 08-2024 Primary source[1]second paragraph
  • Input text Primary source[3]Model Details: Input [4]Command table: command-a-03-2025, Modality
  • Output text Primary source[3]Model Details: Output
  • Feature Tool use Primary source[3]Tool Use Capabilities [2]Enterprise-ready capabilities
  • Feature RetrievalRetrieval-augmented generation with verifiable citations. Primary source[3]RAG Capabilities [2]Enterprise-ready capabilities
  • Feature Multilingual23 languages. Primary source[3]Model Details: Languages covered [2]Enterprise-ready capabilities
  • Open weights YesWeights released for research use under CC-BY-NC with Cohere Labs' Acceptable Use Policy; download is gated behind accepting the conditions. Primary source[2]Availability [3] [5]Abstract
  • Context window 256K tokensThe blog writes 256k. The Hugging Face configuration ships set to 128K, which the card says can be raised. Primary source[3]Context length [1] [4]Command table: command-a-03-2025
  • Parameters 111B Primary source[1]second paragraph [3]Model Size
  • Access API, Open-weights download, cloud partnerAt release on the Cohere platform and Hugging Face, with major cloud providers announced as coming soon. As of 2026-10-01 the models overview lists an Oracle OCI id, per-deployment ids on SageMaker and Azure AI Foundry, and Bedrock as coming soon. Primary source[2]Availability [4]Using Command Models on Different Platforms

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