Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Command A from Cohere on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the OpenRouter API.
Claude Opus 4.8 and Command A are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.
Claude Opus 4.8, from Anthropic, has a 1,000,000-token context window and is priced at $5/M tokens input, $25/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
Command A, from Cohere, has a 256,000-token context window and is priced at $2.50/M tokens input, $10/M tokens output on OpenRouter.
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Command A | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5/M tokens | $2.50/M tokens |
| Output price | $25/M tokens | $10/M tokens |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 256,000 tokens |
| Intelligence Index | 41.8 | 13.1 |
| Coding Index | 74.3 | 27.8 |
| Agentic Index | 41.9 | 1.0 |
| Latency (p50) | 1.49 s | 0.21 s |
| Throughput (p50) | 58.0 tok/s | 56.0 tok/s |
Command A is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on OpenRouter: Command A costs $2.50/M tokens input and $10/M tokens output, while Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5/M tokens input and $25/M tokens output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has the longer context window at 1,000,000 tokens, compared with 256,000 tokens for Command A.
Claude Opus 4.8 is faster on OpenRouter, generating a median 58.0 tokens per second compared with 56.0 tokens per second for Command A.
Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding, with an Artificial Analysis Coding Index of 74.3 compared with 27.8 for Command A.