Cohere Command A vs OpenAI GPT-5.2 Chat
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 1.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Command A accepts longer prompts: 256K vs 128K tokens.
- GPT-5.2 Chat is the newer model (released 2025-12-10).
| Command A | GPT-5.2 Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-12-10 |
| Input / 1M | $2.50 | $1.75 |
| Output / 1M | $10.00 | $14.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | $0.175 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $4.38 | $4.81 |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 32K |
| Accepts | text | text, image, file |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $10.00 | $14.00 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 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-5.2 Chat
$315 per month$10.50 per day
Command A saves $15.00 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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