Cohere Command A+

Cohere Command A+ lists base rates of $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens. Estimate both input and output token volume and any additional charges for your workload. Azure's current USD retail feed lists Command A Plus public-cloud Global at $0.80/$3.20 per MTok and data-zone meters at $0.88/$3.52. US Government Global is $1.00/$4.00 and data-zone $1.10/$4.40. These are Azure rates, not Cohere-direct prices. Cohere's A+ page says trial and production keys are free until rate limits; general paid-key documentation and production-access requirements differ. Standard Vault lists A+ L/XL at $17.50/$32.50 per instance-hour, typically via a waitlist; encrypted beta design-partner access is separately scoped.

Cohere Command A+ accepts about 128K tokens of context. That only matters if you routinely send very long documents, large codebases, or multi-turn histories that approach that limit.

Cohere Command A+ is a balanced tier from Cohere. It suits open-weight deployments, enterprise rag, tool use. The checked Cohere API ID has 128,000 context and 64,000 maximum output. Its W4A4 checkpoint config lists 200,000 positions; that does not expand the hosted limit. Thinking is enabled by default and can be disabled with thinking.type=disabled; thinking.token_budget is a budget rather than a low/medium/high menu. Cohere recommends leaving at least 1K tokens for the answer. Trial A+ is 20 requests/minute; the rate-limit page caps trial/newer-model keys at 1,000 calls/month and directs production access to sales. Do not treat the model-specific free-use statement as unlimited production capacity or as an Azure/Vault entitlement.

Cohere Command A+ publishes open weights, but self-hosting depends on the licence, hardware footprint, quantisation quality, and serving stack. A hosted API is often cheaper until you have measured throughput and concurrency on your own hardware.