Cohere Command A vs Perplexity Sonar Pro
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 1.4× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Command A accepts longer prompts: 256K vs 200K tokens.
| Command A | Sonar Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Cohere | Perplexity |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-03-07 |
| Input / 1M | $2.50 | $3.00 |
| Output / 1M | $10.00 | $15.00 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $4.38 | $6.00 |
| Context | 256K | 200K |
| Max output | 8K | 8K |
| Accepts | text | text, image |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $10.00 | $15.00 |
| 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
Sonar Pro
$405 per month$13.50 per day
Command A saves $105 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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