Command A

cohere/command-a

Command A is Cohere's enterprise flagship. It is suited for grounded RAG with citations and secure enterprise deployments.

Pricing & limits

Provider list price, passed through untouched. The only SwitchGate fee is 4.9% when you top up credits.

Provider	Cohere
Input price	$2.5 / 1M tokens
Output price	$10 / 1M tokens
Context window	256K tokens
Added to catalog	2026-04-25
Tokens routed (30d)	12.4B (placeholder)
Cache hits	0 credits, always

Same governance as every model: per-user budgets, model locks, burnable keys and the kill switch apply automatically.
Cross-provider failover: route around outages to sibling models with one retry policy.
Exact cost per call on one ledger, whoever on your team calls it.

Call it in one line

Python

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.switchgate.ai/v1",
    api_key="sg-live-…",
)

r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="cohere/command-a",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Bonjour!"}],
)

Works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — JavaScript, Go, cURL and more on the quickstart. Compare quality and cost on benchmarks and rankings.

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Free trial credits, list-price pass-through, and a ledger that shows exactly what each call cost.

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