cohere
Command A
Use an endpoint supported by this model.
Get a key for this setup →const response = await fetch('https://api.minirouter.sh/v1/chat/completions', { method: 'POST', headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MINIROUTER_KEY}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, body: JSON.stringify({ model: 'cohere/command-a', messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Why is the sky blue?' }], max_tokens: 1024, }),}) const data = await response.json()console.log(data.choices[0].message.content)- Input / 1M
- $2.625
- Output / 1M
- $10.5
- Context
- 256K
- Max output
- 8K
Overview
Overview
Command A is Cohere's most performant model to date, excelling at tool use, agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual use cases. Command A has a context length of 256K, only requires two GPUs to run, and has 150% higher throughput compared to Command R+ 08-2024. MiniRouter supports text input only.
- Model type
- language
- Context window
- 256,000
- Maximum output
- 8,000
- Input / 1M tokens
- $2.625
- Output / 1M tokens
- $10.5
- Released
- 2025-03-13
Prices include the MiniRouter fee. Compatibility snapshot: 2026-08-06. Input: text. Output: text.
Endpoints
Endpoints
Platform-funded routing only. Caller BYOK credentials and OIDC-based upstream authentication are intentionally excluded; authenticate with a MiniRouter bearer key.
Paths
/v1/chat/completions/v1/messages/v1/responsesStructured output
Not enforced; a requested format is dropped and the answer is plain text. How it works
Captured parameters: max_tokens, temperature, stop, tools, tool_choice.
API
API
Switch between Chat Completions, Messages and client configurations in the setup panel. Every snippet keeps the model ID unchanged.
Base URL
https://api.minirouter.sh/v1Model ID
cohere/command-aProviders
Providers
MiniRouter selects from the configured routes below. Priority is the catalog order, not a latency or availability score.
| Provider | Priority | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Parameters | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
vercel | 1 | $2.625 | $10.5 | max_tokens, temperature, stop, tools, tool_choice | MiniRouter balance |