Command A
Command A is an open-weights language model from Cohere, released March 13, 2025. Its makers disclosed about 218B parameters. The context window is 250K tokens. API price: $2.5 input / $10 output per million tokens.
Today, we’re releasing Command A+ open-source. A mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, Command A+ is an efficient, versatile, and privately deployable LLM built for high-performance agentic tasks with minimal compute overhead.
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Can you run Command A locally?
Even with 32 GB of VRAM and 32 GB of RAM it is too large to run at a usable speed on a single consumer GPU. Estimates assume 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, a 16K context and llama.cpp-style GGUF quantization. Enter your exact hardware in the live app.
| GPU memory | Verdict | Best quant | VRAM | RAM | tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 8 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 12 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 16 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 24 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
| 32 GB VRAM | Size unknown | – | – | – | – |
Parameter count unknown. The weights may not be on Hugging Face yet.
Benchmark results
Epoch AI has not published results for Command A yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.
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