Cohere · llm model
Command A+
Command A+ is a Cohere language model released May 20, 2026; Cohere's newest language model in our dataset is North Small Translate. Open weights (Apache 2.0). Cohere's Command A+, released May 20, 2026 as a mixture-of-experts model with vision, reasoning, translation and agentic abilities, under Apache 2.0. Verified against vendor sources on Oct 26, 2026.
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- ReleasedMay 20, 2026
- Context window128K128,000 tokens
- Max output64K64,000 tokens
- LicenceOpen weightsApache 2.0
Modalities not verified
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Cohere | n/a |
| Released | May 20, 2026 | source |
| Status | generally available | n/a |
| API id | command-a-plus-05-2026 | source |
| Context window | 128,000 tokens (128K) 128K input; 64K output. | source |
| Max output | 64,000 tokens | source |
| Parameters | 218B total, 25B active, mixture-of-experts | source |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 (open weights) | source |
Where Command A+ sits in our data
- Released May 20, 2026 (week 21 of 2026), in May 2026. Other models in our data released that month: Claude Opus 4.8, Nano Banana Pro, Grok Build 0.1, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite.
- The previous Cohere model we track is Cohere Transcribe (Mar 26, 2026), 55 days earlier.
- Of the 60 models in our data with a published context window, Command A+ has the number 55 largest (128K tokens). Our data is not every model on the market.
- Cohere tools we cover: Cohere.
- All releases by date: AI model releases by month · new AI models this week. Choosing for code: best LLM for coding.
How Command A+ differs from North Mini Code
Read from the recorded facts of the two models, not from a head-to-head test. We have not run either.
- Context window is 128K tokens against 256K for North Mini Code.
- Command A+ came out 20 days before North Mini Code.
- Facts for the other model: North Mini Code.
What we tested
Nothing yet. We have not run Command A+ ourselves, so every fact on this page is Reported from the sources below. When we do test it, the scope will be stated here and in our test logs. See methodology.
Not verified, left out
We could not confirm these on a vendor page, so we do not state them.
- Price was not captured.
Sources
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- Cohere Transcribe Arabic (Jul 7, 2026)
- Cohere Transcribe (Mar 26, 2026)
- North Small Translate (Sep 9, 2026)