Cohere Command R+ / Command A
Toronto-based foundation-model lab (Aidan Gomez, ex-Google Brain 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author). Command family is enterprise / RAG-optimised: Command A (Mar-2025, 111B dense, 256k ctx), Command R+ (104B MoE), Command R7B (smallest tier). Announced merger with Aleph Alpha April-2026. Open weights via CC-BY-NC (non-commercial); Cohere-hosted for commercial.
Active · Verified 2026-10-31 · fresh as of 2026-10-31 · 39 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- Command A+ (command-a-plus-05-2026) (2026-05-20) vendor fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 (Command A+ open weights, 2026-05); earlier Command R/A weights CC-BY-NC-4.0; API proprietary vendor fix
- Pricing
- API: Command A $2.50/$10 per 1M; Command R+ $2.50/$10; Command R7B $0.0375/$0.15; Embed + Rerank separately priced vendor fix
- Funding
- $1.5B+ total raised; ~$5.5B valuation 2024 (Series D); Inovia, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Cisco, PSP investors vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-31 fix
- Layer
- large-models repo fix
- SDK languages
- go, java, python, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- openai-compatible vendor fix
- Compliance
- soc2-type2 vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: enterprise RAG, reranker pipelines, customer-VPC / on-prem deployments, multi-language enterprise use
Anti-fit: not for consumer chat (no Cohere consumer app); benchmark performance trails Claude/GPT in raw reasoning; CC-BY-NC weights limit OSS commercial use
Pros & cons
Pros
Enterprise-first positioning (in-tenant / on-prem); SOTA reranker family; strong RAG performance; major enterprise customers (Oracle, RBC, Bloomberg).
Cons
Trails Anthropic/OpenAI/Google on raw frontier benchmarks; weights CC-BY-NC only; no consumer presence; merger uncertainty post-Aleph-Alpha integration.
Claims & capabilities
Command A: 111B dense, 256k ctx, 23 languages, enterprise-RAG-tuned; Command R+ best open-weights RAG model 2024; reranker + embed family integrated; Aleph Alpha merger announced Apr-2026
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST + SDK (Python, TS, Java, Go); native AWS Bedrock + Azure + Oracle + GCP
- Backend storage
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- Deployment
- Managed cloud + customer VPC (AWS / Azure / GCP / Oracle Cloud) + on-prem; weights downloadable for non-commercial via HuggingFace
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- MCP
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- A2A
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — substrate foundation model
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Sources (38 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Enterprise-focused frontier model family (Command A / Command R+ / Command R7B) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Toronto-based foundation-model lab (Aidan Gomez, ex-Google Brain 'Attention Is All You N… vendor
- Claims / benefits Command A: 111B dense, 256k ctx, 23 languages, enterprise-RAG-tuned; Command R+ best ope… vendor
- Modalities text + code; image via Aya Vision; primarily text-focused — enterprise RAG bias vendor
- Created 2019 (Cohere founded); 2024-04 (Command R+); 2025-03 (Command A) vendor
- Latest release Command A+ (command-a-plus-05-2026) (2026-05-20) vendor
- License Apache-2.0 (Command A+ open weights, 2026-05); earlier Command R/A weights CC-BY-NC-4.0;… vendor
- GitHub github.com/cohere-ai cumulative ~5k+ stars; various model repos on HuggingFace vendor
- Mindshare Top-3 in enterprise RAG; Oracle Cloud deep integration; large reranker mindshare among L… vendor
- Funding $1.5B+ total raised; ~$5.5B valuation 2024 (Series D); Inovia, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventur… vendor
- Customers / scale Oracle (deep integration), Fujitsu, RBC, Notion, Salesforce, SAP, Bloomberg; LSE / TSX-l… vendor
- Pricing API: Command A $2.50/$10 per 1M; Command R+ $2.50/$10; Command R7B $0.0375/$0.15; Embed … vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27017/18, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS; deployable to customer VPC vendor
- Data handling Never trains on customer data; in-tenant deployment available; SOC2 + ISO 27001 baseline vendor
- Deployment Managed cloud + customer VPC (AWS / Azure / GCP / Oracle Cloud) + on-prem; weights downl… vendor
- HQ Toronto, Canada (offices in SF, London, NYC) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Aidan Gomez (CEO; Transformer paper co-author), Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst vendor
- Performance MMLU ~85% (Command A); RAG-specific: SOTA among open-weights tier; reranker family widel… vendor
- Code/weights release weights public (non-commercial); commercial requires Cohere API vendor
- API surface REST + SDK (Python, TS, Java, Go); native AWS Bedrock + Azure + Oracle + GCP vendor
- LLM lock multi-vendor option (Cohere-hosted + customer VPC + on-prem) vendor
- Runtimes any (HTTP API; HuggingFace Transformers for non-commercial) vendor
- Validated verticals financial services (RBC, Bloomberg), telecom (Oracle, Fujitsu), public sector, retail, e… vendor
- Time to running <10min via Cohere API; <1day customer-VPC deploy; <1week on-prem vendor
- Anti-fit not for consumer chat (no Cohere consumer app); benchmark performance trails Claude/GPT … vendor
- Optimised for enterprise RAG, reranker pipelines, customer-VPC / on-prem deployments, multi-language e… vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Cohere Embed v4; Cohere Rerank v3; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deep integration vendor
- Pros Enterprise-first positioning (in-tenant / on-prem); SOTA reranker family; strong RAG per… vendor
- Cons Trails Anthropic/OpenAI/Google on raw frontier benchmarks; weights CC-BY-NC only; no con… vendor
- Project & sources cohere.com/command vendor
- capability-benchmark-sources tau-bench: 85.0% (Command A+ command-a-plus-05-2026, τ²-Bench Telecom, 2026-05-20) https… vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup large-models repo
- compliance-certifications soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages go,java,python,rest,typescript vendor
- protocol-support openai-compatible vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-26
- License “CC-BY-NC 4.0 (weights — non-commercial only); proprietary for commercial” → “Apache-2.0 (Command A+ open weights, 2026-05); earlier Command R/A weights CC-BY-NC-4.0; API proprietary” source
- Latest release “Command A (2025-03); Command R7B (2024-12)” → “Command A+ (command-a-plus-05-2026) (2026-05-20)” source
Related systems
References (3)
- AWS SageMaker integrates with — Cohere docs: "An Amazon SageMaker Setup Guide" for Cohere models. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Embed depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Cohere Embed v4; Cohere Rerank v3; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deep integration
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — Cohere docs: "Cohere Chat on LangChain (Integration Guide)". (verified 2026-10-29)
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- agentgateway integrates with — agentgateway integrations docs have a Cohere provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a Cohere Command R+ / Command A integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bifrost (Maxim AI) integrates with — Bifrost supported-providers docs have a provider page for Cohere. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Cohere Command R+ / Command A integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cloudflare AI Gateway integrates with — Cloudflare AI Gateway docs have a Cohere provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a Cohere Command R+ / Command A integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Elasticsearch integrates with — Elastic Search Labs has a Cohere Command R+ / Command A integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Haystack (framework) integrates with — Haystack integrations directory has a Cohere integration page ("Use Cohere models with Haystack"). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Kong AI Gateway integrates with — Kong AI Gateway docs have a Cohere AI-provider reference page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Laminar integrates with — Laminar integrations docs have a Cohere observability page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — LangChain docs have a Cohere integration provider page (Language AI platform for enterprise applications). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langflow integrates with — Langflow components bundle: Cohere language model component. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Cohere Command R+ / Command A integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM docs have a Cohere provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official LLM integration package llama-index-llms-cohere in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- n8n (AI agent flows) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Cohere Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenInference integrates with — The OpenInference repo README lists an OpenInference instrumentation package for Cohere Command R+ / Command A. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — OpenLLMetry's What's Supported page lists Cohere Command R+ / Command A as instrumented out of the box. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — OpenRouter lists Cohere as an inference provider (providers API slug "cohere"). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a cohere model provider module (agno.models.cohere). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Cohere LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic-AI integrates with — Pydantic AI docs have a Cohere model provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — Strands Agents docs have a community Cohere model provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway docs have a Cohere model-provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — AI SDK docs have a Cohere official AI SDK provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — Weaviate's integrations / model-provider docs list Cohere Command R+ / Command A as an integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weights & Biases integrates with — W&B Weave docs have a Cohere Command R+ / Command A integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)