Models

Cohere Command A vs Grok 4.5

Compare Cohere Command A from Cohere and Grok 4.5 from Grok on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Cohere Command A
Cohere · text → text

Command A is Cohere most performant model to date, excelling at tool use, agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and multilingual use cases. Command A has a context length of 256K, only requires two GPUs to run, and has 150% higher throughput compared to Command R+ 08-2024.

Input$2.5 /M
Output$10 /M
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Grok 4.5
Grok · text, image → text

Grok 4.5 was trained on datasets spanning knowledge in coding, science, engineering, and math. With both intelligent and efficient reasoning, Grok 4.5 excels at real engineering tasks and exceeds comparable leading models at these tasks.

Input$2 /M
Output$6 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Cohere Command A
Grok 4.5
Input /M
$2.5
$2
Output /M
$10
$6
Cache read /M
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$0.5
Context length
256,000
500,000
Max output
8,000
500,000
Time to First Token
1.5 s
3.3 s
Throughput
3.9 tok/s
40.6 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputslong context
API Formats
Released
March 13, 2025
July 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Grok 4.5
$210 /mo
Cohere Command A
$300 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Cohere Command A, Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5: $6/M output tokens; Cohere Command A: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Cohere Command A: 1.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Cohere Command A accepts 256,000 and Grok 4.5 accepts 500,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 8,000 tokens on Cohere Command A and 500,000 tokens on Grok 4.5.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Grok 4.5 at 40.6 tok/s and Cohere Command A at 3.9 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Cohere Command A accepts text input; Grok 4.5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.

Can I call Cohere Command A and Grok 4.5 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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