Compare Cohere Command A from Cohere and Qwen3.8 Max Preview from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Cohere Command A
Qwen3.8 Max PreviewCommand 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.
Qwen 3.8 Max Preview(Qwen3.8-Max-Preview) is the latest-generation foundation model in the Qwen family, packing 2.4T parameters and still evolving. Compared with the previous flagship Qwen 3.7 Max, it delivers major gains in core capabilities like Coding and Cowork (professional productivity), with world-leading performance on complex, long-horizon tasks such as full-stack development, data analysis, and Office workflows. Launch offer: Credits are consumed at just 20% of the standard rate, effectively 5× your usage. Limited time only.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Qwen3.8 Max Preview: $1.014/M output tokens; Cohere Command A: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
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.
Cohere Command A accepts 256,000 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 8,000 tokens on Cohere Command A and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max Preview.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview at 48.1 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.
Cohere Command A accepts text input; Qwen3.8 Max Preview accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.
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