Model comparison
Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Cohere Command A
Compare Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Cohere Command A API pricing: input/output token costs, cache pricing, context windows, workload estimates, and routing fit.
Mistral Medium 3.5
mistral · mistral/mistral-medium-3-5
- Input
- $1.5
- Output
- $7.5
- Context
- 262.1K
Cohere Command A
cohere_chat · command-a-03-2025
- Input
- $2.5
- Output
- $10
- Context
- 256K
Quick take
Mistral Medium 3.5 has the lower input price at $1.5 per 1M input tokens. Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper for the example blended workload below. Mistral Medium 3.5 has the larger context window at 262.1K tokens.
Choose Mistral Medium 3.5 if...
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is the better default for cost-sensitive traffic and repeated high-volume calls.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is safer for long documents, repository analysis, and RAG prompts because it has the larger context window.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 is stronger when the same large prompt or document is reused because it supports prompt caching.
Choose Cohere Command A if...
- Cohere Command A gives more room for long generated answers, reports, or code output.
Example workload cost
Estimates use input tokens plus 20% output tokens. They exclude provider discounts, cache hits, and tool/search surcharges.
| Workload | Mistral Medium 3.5 | Cohere Command A | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1M input + 200K output | $3.00 | $4.50 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| 10M input + 2M output | $30.00 | $45.00 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
| 100M input + 20M output | $300.00 | $450.00 | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
Context, output, and capability fit
Mistral Medium 3.5 provides the larger context window. Check max output separately when the task needs long reports, code generation, or full-document rewrites.
- Mistral Medium 3.5 max output
- n/a
- Cohere Command A max output
- 8K
- Mistral Medium 3.5 features
- prompt caching, function calling, vision
- Cohere Command A features
- function calling
Risk notes for Mistral Medium 3.5
- No major capability risk is flagged in this snapshot, but provider pages should still be verified before production routing.
Risk notes for Cohere Command A
- No prompt caching in this snapshot: repeated long-context calls may be more expensive.
Routing tags
frontiercodingreasoningagentsmultimodalopen-weightenterpriseraglocal-openenterprise-raglong-context