Command A+
Command A+ is an open-weight language model from Cohere, released on May 20, 2026. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 218B total parameters, of which 25B are active for each token. Cohere lists a context window of 128K tokens of input, with up to 64K tokens of output. The model accepts text and image input.
- Developer
- Cohere
- Released
- May 20, 2026
- Total parameters
- 218B
- Active parameters per token
- 25B
- Architecture
- MoE
- Context window
- 128K
- Input
- Text, image
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Official weights, GB
- 437.5 GB
- Hugging Face repository
- huggingface.co
- Checked on
The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.
The official weights on Hugging Face take about 438 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
- 218B
- Active parameters, billions
- 25B
- Context window, tokens
- 128K
- License type
- Apache 2.0
- License conditions
- Apache 2.0, unlike earlier Cohere open-weight releases, which were non-commercial.
- Weights precision
- BF16
- Official quantized or alternative versions
- CohereLabs/command-a-plus-05-2026-fp8; CohereLabs/command-a-plus-05-2026-w4a4
- License text
- apache.org
- Sources
Page URL Hugging Face model page https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16 cohere.com announcement https://cohere.com/blog/command-a-plus Hugging Face API https://huggingface.co/api/models/CohereLabs/command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16?expand=safetensors