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 | $2.00 | Command A (60% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.50 | $0.20 | Command A lower |
| Output / 1M | $25.00 | $8.00 | 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) | — |
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 $8/M rate.