Overview
Command A, released by Cohere on August 28, 2025, is the company's most efficient and performant model to date. It is purpose-built for real-world enterprise agentic applications, specializing in automating business workflows and powering sophisticated workplace productivity tools. Command A represents the next era of enterprise AI, focusing on seamless integration with existing apps and delivering verifiable, data-grounded insights.
Capabilities
Command A is designed from the ground up to power AI agents and support enterprise-scale deployments:
- Agentic AI: Excels at automating complex business workflows. It can connect to various applications, streamline tasks, and significantly boost team efficiency.
- Advanced Tool Use: Features a highly sophisticated Tool Use API that allows it to build powerful agents and research tools across both in-house and cloud applications.
- Superior Multilingual Performance: Offers industry-leading performance in a wide range of languages, making it ideal for global enterprise operations.
- Grounded in Data (RAG): Like its predecessors, it is highly optimized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, ensuring that its outputs can be verified against enterprise data to minimize hallucinations.
- Optimized for Human Evaluations: The model has been fine-tuned based on human preference evaluations, making its outputs more helpful and natural for real-world use cases.
Technical Specifications
- Model size: While the exact parameter count is proprietary, it is a large-scale, highly optimized model.
- Architecture: A state-of-the-art Transformer architecture purpose-built for agentic intelligence and efficiency.
- Context Window: Likely a large context window (e.g., 128K tokens) to handle complex business documents and long conversations.
Use Cases
Command A is built to be the engine behind modern workplace productivity:
- AI Agents for Workflow Automation: Building agents that can handle tasks like scheduling, expense reporting, and CRM updates by connecting to tools like Google Suite, Salesforce, and more.
- Intelligent Workplace Search: Powering advanced search systems (like Cohere's North platform) that provide direct, verifiable answers from company knowledge bases.
- Large-Scale Content Creation: Generating high-quality reports, marketing materials, and product descriptions that are grounded in specific data.
- Private and Secure Deployments: Can be deployed securely in a customer's own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to ensure data privacy and security.
Pricing & Access
Command A is a premium, enterprise-focused model:
- API Access: Available through Cohere's API and is the engine behind their "North" AI platform.
- Cloud Providers: Offered through major cloud partners like Microsoft Azure, allowing businesses to leverage the model within their existing infrastructure.
Ecosystem & Tools
- Cohere North: Cohere's enterprise-ready AI platform, which is powered by Command A.
- Cohere Platform: The central hub for API access, documentation, and developer resources.
- Microsoft Azure: A key partner for private and secure model deployments.
- SDKs: Full support through Cohere's official SDKs.