Overview
Command A Reasoning adds a reasoning mode to Cohere’s Command A line. It can think before answering for higher accuracy or answer directly for lower latency, and it is tuned for tool use and agentic workflows. Cohere Labs releases the weights for research under a non-commercial license.
Highlights
- 111B parameters
- Reasoning on or off per request
- 256K-token context window
- Built for tool use and agents
- Multilingual
Typical uses
Enterprise agents, research assistants and multilingual RAG; commercial use goes through Cohere’s platform.
Things to consider
- CC-BY-NC license: no commercial use of the open weights.
- Needs data-center GPUs to run locally.
Specifications are taken from the model card on Hugging Face and the provider’s announcement. Benchmark results depend on evaluation settings; see how AI benchmarks work.