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Command A

Command A is an open-weight language model from Cohere, released in March 2025.

Developer
Cohere
Released
March 2025
Total parameters
111B
Architecture
Dense
Context window
256K
Input
Text
License
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
No
Official weights, GB
222.1 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
Checked on

Command A is a dense model with 111B parameters. Cohere lists a context window of 256K tokens. The model takes text input. The weights are released under CC BY-NC 4.0, which does not allow commercial use. The Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy also applies. The official weights on Hugging Face take about 222 GB in BF16. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
111B
Context window, tokens
256K
License type
Non-commercial
License conditions
Non-commercial research use only. The Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy also applies.
Weights precision
BF16
License text
creativecommons.org
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model pagehttps://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025
Hugging Face APIhttps://huggingface.co/api/models/CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025?expand=safetensors

Questions

What license does Command A use?
The weights are released under CC BY-NC 4.0, which does not allow commercial use.
Can I use Command A commercially?
No. The license allows non-commercial research use only, and the Cohere Labs Acceptable Use Policy also applies. For commercial use, Cohere’s later Command A+ is released under Apache 2.0.
How much memory does Command A need?
The official Command A weights take about 222 GB (BF16). Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less. The memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does Command A have?
Command A is a dense model with 111B parameters. Cohere lists a context window of 256K tokens. The model takes text input.

Sources

Every figure comes from the developer’s model card, license text and official announcements, and from the model’s Hugging Face repository metadata. Each model page lists its sources and the date they were checked; the register is rechecked every week.

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