Models

Cohere Command A vs Kimi K3

Output tokens cost $10.00 per million on Cohere Command A and $15.00 per million on Kimi K3. Input tokens cost $2.50 per million on Cohere Command A and $3.00 per million on Kimi K3.

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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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Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · text, image, video → text

Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.

Input$3.00 /M
Output$15.00 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Cohere Command A
Kimi K3
Input /M
$2.50
$3.00
Output /M
$10.00
$15.00
Cache read /M
$0.00
$0.30
Context length
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1,048,576
Max output
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1,048,576
Time to First Token
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0.9 s
Throughput
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73.1 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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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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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.

Cohere Command A
$300 /mo
Kimi K3
$405 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Cohere Command A, Kimi K3?

Cohere Command A: $10.00/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $15.00/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; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Cohere Command A and Kimi K3 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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