Command A vs Gemini 3.1 Pro
Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, specs, benchmarks, and capabilities
| Specification |
by Cohere
|
by Google
|
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Status | Current flagship | Current flagship |
| Released | Mar 13, 2025 | Feb 19, 2026 |
| Pricing per million tokens | ||
| Input | $2.50/Mtok | $2.00/Mtok |
| Output | $10.00/Mtok | $12.00/Mtok |
| Blended avg | $4.38/Mtok | $4.50/Mtok |
| Cached input | — | $0.200/Mtok |
| Specifications | ||
| Context window | 256K tokens | 2M tokens |
| Parameters | 111B | Proprietary |
| Speed (TPS) | — | — |
| Modalities | ||
| Input |
text
|
textimageaudiovideo
|
| Benchmarks sources: Cohere model card / Vellum LLM Leaderboard | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 50 vendor | 94.3 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 15 vendor | 44.4 |
| ARC-AGI 2 | 12 vendor | 77.1 |
| HumanEval | 78 vendor | 80.6 |
| Avg benchmark score | — | 74.8 |
| Perf / dollar | — | 16.6 |
| SWE-Bench Verified | 25 vendor | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 70.3 |
| MCP Atlas | — | 69.2 |
| BrowseComp | — | 85.9 |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 76.2 |
| AIME 2025 | 45 vendor | — |
| MMMLU | 74 vendor | — |
| BFCL | 60 vendor | — |
| MATH 500 | 62 vendor | — |
| Independent composite scores each on its own scale — not part of the average above | ||
| LMSYS Chatbot Arena | 1353.9 ELO | 1486.3 ELO |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | 47.7 |
| AA Agentic Index | — | 23 |
| AA-Omniscience Index (−100–100) | — | 31.9 |
| Providers | ||
| Available from |
Cohere — $2.50/$10.00/Mtok
|
Google — $2.00/$12.00/Mtok
|
Cost at scale
1M tokens · 50/50 input/output| Volume | Command A | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M tokens | $4.38 | $4.5 | $0.13 (2.9%) |
| 10M tokens | $43.75 | $45 | $1.25 (2.8%) |
| 100M tokens | $437.5 | $450 | $12.5 (2.8%) |
| 1000M tokens | $4375 | $4500 | $125 (2.8%) |
When to pick which
distilled from the pricing and spec data above- cost dominates: $4.38/Mtok blended vs $4.50 — 2.8% less on the same 50/50 token mix
- your workload re-reads context (agents, RAG, long chats): cached input costs $0.200/Mtok — 90% off its list input price, a discount Command A doesn't offer
- you need the longer context: 2M tokens vs 256K (7.8×)
The cheaper option here — Command A costs $4.38/Mtok blended on Cohere.
Summary
Command A by Cohere costs $2.50/Mtok input and $10.00/Mtok output, with a 256K-token context window. It supports text input.
Gemini 3.1 Pro by Google costs $2.00/Mtok input and $12.00/Mtok output, with a 2M-token context window. It supports text, image, audio, video input.
On a blended cost basis, Command A is 2.8% cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro.
The two aren't directly comparable on average benchmark score: Gemini 3.1 Pro has published per-benchmark results, while Command A does not yet — it is measured today on independent composites (see the table above).
Note: Pricing is per million tokens. Actual costs vary with usage patterns, prompt caching, and batch discounts. Always verify against official provider pricing pages.