Cohere Command A vs OpenAI GPT-4
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Command A is 8.6× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Command A accepts longer prompts: 256K vs 8K tokens.
- Command A is the newer model (released 2025-03-13).
| Command A | GPT-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2023-05-28 |
| Input / 1M | $2.50 | $30.00 |
| Output / 1M | $10.00 | $60.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $4.38 | $37.50 |
| Context | 256K | 8K |
| Max output | 8K | 4K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 2 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $10.00 | $60.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | Operational |
Cost calculator
Command A
$300 per month$10.00 per day
GPT-4
$2,700 per month$90.00 per day
Command A saves $2,400 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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