Cohere: Command A+

Overview

Cohere's first Mixture-of-Experts model (218B total, 25B active) with text and image input, reasoning, agentic and translation capabilities across 48 languages. Weights released under Apache 2.0.

Provider

Cohere

Modality

Text and image

Input

text, image

Output

text

Max output

64,000 tokens

Weights

Open weights

Supported parameters

tools, structured_outputs, response_format, reasoning, temperature, top_pProvider's model page, checked October 8, 2026.

Distillable

YesLicence or terms, checked October 8, 2026.

Tags

open-weights, agents, reasoning, vision, multilingual

Docs

Provider documentation

Data policy

Prompts go to

Cohere SaaS Platform

Retention

Logged prompts and generations deleted after 30 days unless flagged or legally required, you can opt out of training use in dashboard Data Controls, ZDR for approved enterprise customers

Zero data retention

Available

Region

Not stated

Policy

Cohere data policy

Summarised from the provider's published terms. The provider's own policy is what applies.

Where you can run it

How Command A+ can be deployed, bought and reached through Safeguard.

Deployment

Private cloudOn-premAir-gapped

Procurement

Not published yet

Inference regions

Not published yet

On-prem and air-gapped deployments run wherever you install them.

Pricing

Notes

cohere.com/pricing lists Command A+ as 'Free' (API key and model download, Apache 2.0) and publishes no per-token production rate, so prices are left null.

Source

Cohere pricing

No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

API

OpenAI-compatible. Your API key and access to this model are set up for your workspace when you choose Use with Safeguard.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.safeguard.sh/gpt/v1",
    api_key="SAFEGUARD_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="cohere/command-a-plus-05-2026",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Base URL https://api.safeguard.sh/gpt/v1, model cohere/command-a-plus-05-2026.