Llama 3.1 405B vs Command A+
Meta vs Cohere · Prices checked 12 August 2026
On blended cost Llama 3.1 405B undercuts Command A+ by about 5.9×: $0.800 per million tokens versus $4.75. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.088 on Llama 3.1 405B against $0.350 on Command A+.
On context, Command A+ is the larger at 256,000 tokens versus 128,000.
Pricing and capacity
| Metric | Llama 3.1 405B | Command A+ | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.800 | $2.50 | 3.1× |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.800 | $10.00 | 12.5× |
| Blended · 70/30calculated | $0.800 | $4.75 | 5.9× |
| Blended · 50/50calculated | $0.800 | $6.25 | 7.8× |
| Blended · 80/20calculated | $0.800 | $4.00 | 5.0× |
| Blended · 20/80calculated | $0.800 | $8.50 | 10.6× |
| Job cost · 100K + 10Kcalculated | $0.088 | $0.350 | 4.0× |
| Job cost · 1M + 100Kcalculated | $0.880 | $3.50 | 4.0× |
| Context window | 128,000 | 256,000 | 2.0× |
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
Llama 3.1 405B
Meta · Large
Largest dense Llama. Used as a quality benchmark for open weights, heavy to run, often hosted via Together / DeepInfra / Cerebras.
- Top open-weights quality
- Permissive license
- Strong reasoning
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
Frequently asked questions
Which is cheaper, Llama 3.1 405B or Command A+?
On blended cost Llama 3.1 405B undercuts Command A+ by about 5.9×: $0.800 per million tokens versus $4.75. A single 100K-input, 10K-output job costs $0.088 on Llama 3.1 405B against $0.350 on Command A+. 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, Llama 3.1 405B or Command A+?
On context, Command A+ is the larger at 256,000 tokens versus 128,000. 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 Llama 3.1 405B and Command A+ 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.
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Prices and scores are recomputed on every deploy from the catalogue. Prices checked 12 August 2026.