Models

Cohere Command A vs GLM 5.2

Output tokens cost $10.00 per million on Cohere Command A and $3.94 per million on GLM 5.2. Input tokens cost $2.50 per million on Cohere Command A and $1.13 per million on GLM 5.2.

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Cohere Command A
Cohere · text → text

Command 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.

Input$2.50 /M
Output$10.00 /M
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GLM 5.2
Z.AI · text → text

GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.

Input$1.13 /M
Output$3.94 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Cohere Command A
GLM 5.2
Input /M
$2.50
$1.13
Output /M
$10.00
$3.94
Cache read /M
$0.00
$0.28
Context length
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1,000,000
Max output
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128,000
Time to First Token
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1.2 s
Throughput
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41.4 tok/s
Modalities
text
text
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
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June 16, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

GLM 5.2
$127 /mo
Cohere Command A
$300 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Cohere Command A, GLM 5.2?

GLM 5.2: $3.94/M output tokens; Cohere Command A: $10.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Cohere Command A accepts text input; GLM 5.2 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Cohere Command A and GLM 5.2 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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