Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 and Cohere's Command A.
| Metric | Claude Opus 5 | Command A | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | Anthropic | Cohere | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $5.00 | $2.50 | Command A (50% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.20 | Command A lower |
| Output / 1M | $25.00 | $10.00 | Command A lower |
| Context Window | 1M | 256k | Claude Opus 5 (1M) |
| Max Generation Tokens | 16.4k | 64k | Command A |
| Tokenizer Family | Anthropic Claude BPE (~65k vocabulary) | Cohere Byte-Pair Encoding (256k vocabulary) | — |
| Workload (per month) | Claude Opus 5 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot10k requests · 500 in / 200 out | $75.00 | $32.50 |
| RAG app100k requests · 8,000 in / 1,200 out | $7,000.00 | $3,200.00 |
| Coding agent100k requests · 12,000 in / 2,000 out | $11,000.00 | $5,000.00 |
Standard rates, no caching or batch discounts. Model your own numbers below.
Opt for Claude Opus 5 when your engineering requirements prioritize Anthropic's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated Claude Tokenizer (±3%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $5/M input rate.
Opt for Command A when looking for Cohere's tooling integration, specific context window depth (256k tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $10/M rate.
At a typical 3:1 input-to-output token mix, Command A is about 56% cheaper than Claude Opus 5. Claude Opus 5 costs $5 per 1M input and $25 per 1M output tokens; Command A costs $2.5 and $10.
Claude Opus 5 has the larger context window: 1M tokens vs 256k.
Claude Opus 5: yes, cached input costs $0.5/1M. Command A: yes, cached input costs $0.2/1M.