Command A+ vs Sonar Pro
Cohere vs Perplexity · Prices checked 12 August 2026
On price Command A+ edges it, $4.75 per million tokens blended versus $6.60, about 28 per cent less. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.350 on Command A+ against $0.450 on Sonar Pro.
Command A+ reads more in one request: 256,000 tokens of context against 200,000.
Pricing and capacity
| Metric | Command A+ | Sonar Pro | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $2.50 | $3.00 | 17% |
| Output / 1M tokens | $10.00 | $15.00 | 33% |
| Blended · 70/30calculated | $4.75 | $6.60 | 28% |
| Blended · 50/50calculated | $6.25 | $9.00 | 31% |
| Blended · 80/20calculated | $4.00 | $5.40 | 26% |
| Blended · 20/80calculated | $8.50 | $12.60 | 33% |
| Job cost · 100K + 10Kcalculated | $0.350 | $0.450 | 22% |
| Job cost · 1M + 100Kcalculated | $3.50 | $4.50 | 22% |
| Context window | 256,000 | 200,000 | 22% |
Input and output rates are as published by each provider. Blended and job-cost rows are calculated comparison metrics, not published prices — how they are derived.
Benchmarks
These two models do not currently report scores on any of the same benchmark suites, so there is no like-for-like capability comparison to show. Rather than pad the page with one-sided numbers, the benchmark leaderboards list every score we do hold.
What each model is for
Command A+
Cohere · Frontier
Cohere's fastest and most powerful open-weight model, aimed at high-performance enterprise agents: a 218B sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with native citations, tool use and reasoning, multilingual across 48 languages, released under an Apache 2.0 licence. It has three distinct cost paths, the weights are a free download and run on as little as two H100 GPUs, Cohere's trial API key is free but rate-limited and not licensed for production, and the hosted production API bills $2.50/$10 per MTok. The rate in our index is the production API, since that is what a live workload actually pays.
- Apache 2.0 open weights, self-host with no per-token charge
- Runs on as few as two H100 GPUs
- Native citations for grounded answers
- Multilingual across 48 languages
Sonar Pro
Perplexity · Frontier
Web-grounded Perplexity flagship. Returns answers with citations from a live search index.
- Live web search
- Citations included
- Up-to-date answers
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Command A+ or Sonar Pro?
On price Command A+ edges it, $4.75 per million tokens blended versus $6.60, about 28 per cent less. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.350 on Command A+ against $0.450 on Sonar Pro. Blended cost weights input at 70% and output at 30%; price your own token split for an exact answer, since the cheaper model on a blended basis is not always cheaper for your workload.
Which has the larger context window, Command A+ or Sonar Pro?
Command A+ reads more in one request: 256,000 tokens of context against 200,000. The context window caps everything in a single request: prompt, retrieved documents, conversation history and the model’s own output all share it.
Can I compare Command A+ and Sonar Pro on my own numbers?
Yes. Open both in the side-by-side comparison tool to see every field at once, or use the token calculator to price your actual prompt and monthly request volume against each model. Both are free and need no sign-up.
Price it for your own workload
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Prices and scores are recomputed on every deploy from the catalogue. Prices checked 12 August 2026.