Command A vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Cohere against Mistral AI, costed on the same three workloads. Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper on all three workloads.

Monthly bill, side by side

WorkloadCommand AMistral Medium 3.5Difference
Support chatbot
2,500 six-turn conversations a day
$9,056 $6,041 $3,015 (+50%)
Document summariser
1,000 single-shot summaries a day
$1,155 $729 $426 (1.6×)
Coding agent
200 twelve-turn sessions a day
$6,570 $4,212 $2,358 (1.6×)

No prompt caching and no batch discount on either side, so the comparison is like for like. Both figures assume 30 days a month.

The rate cards

Command AMistral Medium 3.5
Input, per 1M tokens$2.5$1.5
Output, per 1M tokens$10$7.5
Cached inputnot publishednot published
Context window256K262K
Maximum output8K262K
Reasoning modelnono
Visionnoyes

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