Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between Alibaba / Qwen's Qwen3 235B-A22B and Cohere's Command A.
| Metric | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Command A | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | Alibaba / Qwen | Cohere | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $0.90 | $2.00 | Qwen3 235B-A22B (55% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.18 | $0.20 | Qwen3 235B-A22B lower |
| Output / 1M | $1.60 | $8.00 | Qwen3 235B-A22B lower |
| Context Window | 128k | 256k | Command A (256k) |
| Max Generation Tokens | 32k | 64k | Command A |
| Tokenizer Family | Qwen SentencePiece BPE (152k vocabulary) | Cohere Byte-Pair Encoding (256k vocabulary) | — |
Opt for Qwen3 235B-A22B when your engineering requirements prioritize Alibaba / Qwen's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated Qwen Tokenizer (±2%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $0.9/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.