Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Command A 03 2025 from Cohere on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 4.8
Command A 03 2025Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
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.
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Command A 03 2025: $10/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Command A 03 2025: 1390 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Command A 03 2025 accepts 256,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 8,000 tokens on Command A 03 2025.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Command A 03 2025 accepts text input.
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