Cohere, Canada · Released May 11, 2026
Command A+ has 218.8B parameters (25B active per token). In BF16 its weights alone take 407 GiB; quantized to 4-bit, about 123 GiB. Each 32K-token request adds 1.38 GiB of KV cache. Cheapest way to run it today: 6 × GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB) at $0.726 per hour. It reads text and images, calls tools and lets you set its reasoning effort.
Size your own setup in the calculator →Weights plus the KV cache of one request (BF16 cache), in GiB. Add 1 to 3 GiB for the inference engine itself.
| Weights format | Weights only | + 8K context | + 32K context | + 128K context | + 195.3125K context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 | 407 | 408 | 409 | 412 | 414 |
| FP8 / INT8 | 205 | 205 | 206 | 209 | 211 |
| 4-bit (GGUF Q4_K_M) | 123 | 124 | 124 | 127 | 129 |
Exact size of each quantization in DevQuasar/CohereLabs.command-a-plus-05-2026-bf16-GGUF-EXPERIMENTAL (opens in a new tab), and the smallest GPU that runs it with llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio and an 8K-token context.
| Quantization | File size | Smallest GPU |
|---|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 216 GiB | More than 96 GB: see the calculator |
| Q6_K | 167 GiB | More than 96 GB: see the calculator |
| Q5_K_M | 144 GiB | More than 96 GB: see the calculator |
| Q4_K_M | 123 GiB | More than 96 GB: see the calculator |
| Q3_K_M | 97.4 GiB | More than 96 GB: see the calculator |
| Q2_K | 74.2 GiB | RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (96 GB) |
Read every day from Hugging Face. Split files are added together; vision projectors are left out.
Fewest GPUs that fit the weights plus one 8K-token request. Data-center GPUs use vLLM (90% of memory usable), the others llama.cpp. Several GPUs split the model with tensor or pipeline parallelism.
| GPU | BF16 / FP16 | 8-bit | 4-bit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB | 24 (several machines) | 16 (several machines) | 6 |
| GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB | 16 (several machines) | 8 | 5 |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Mac M5 Max 128 GB 96 GB usable | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Ryzen AI Max+ 395 128 GB 96 GB usable | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| NVIDIA H100 80 GB | 7 | 4 | 2 |
| NVIDIA H200 141 GB | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| NVIDIA B200 (HGX) 180 GB | 3 | 2 | 1 |
8-bit: FP8 with vLLM (INT8 on GPUs without FP8), Q8_0 with llama.cpp. 4-bit: AWQ / GPTQ with vLLM, Q4_K_M with llama.cpp, both counted at the Q4_K_M size.
For each GPU: the fewest cards that fit Command A+ with one 8K-token request, the most faithful weight format at that count, and the cheapest on-demand price (2026-10-30).
| Setup | Per hour | Weights | Provider | Per month | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 × GeForce RTX 3090 24 GB | $0.726 | Q4_K_M | Vast.ai | $529.98 | Rent 6 × GeForce RTX 3090 on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 8 × NVIDIA L4 24 GB | $0.832 | 4-bit | Vast.ai | $607.36 | Rent 8 × NVIDIA L4 on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 6 × RTX A5000 24 GB | $1.13 | Q4_K_M | Vast.ai | $827.82 | Rent 6 × RTX A5000 on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 3 × RTX A6000 48 GB | $1.20 | Q4_K_M | Vast.ai | $878.19 | Rent 3 × RTX A6000 on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 2 × NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.26 | 4-bit | Vast.ai | $919.80 | Rent 2 × NVIDIA A100 80GB on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 4 × NVIDIA A100 40GB | $1.60 | 4-bit | Vast.ai | $1,168.00 | Rent 4 × NVIDIA A100 40GB on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 3 × RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB | $1.60 | Q4_K_M | Vast.ai | $1,169.46 | Rent 3 × RTX 6000 Ada on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| 6 × RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 24 GB | $1.61 | Q4_K_M | Vast.ai | $1,178.22 | Rent 6 × RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
On-demand prices from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, RunPod, Vast.ai, Oracle Cloud, OVHcloud, Scaleway, Verda, Akash and UpCloud, checked every hour. Serving many users needs more KV cache, so more memory: size it in the calculator. Some links are affiliate links: StudioTV may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
AWS, Google Cloud and UpCloud prices: Spare Cores (opens in a new tab), CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab), shared under the same license.
Reasoning. Adjustable reasoning effort. Reasoning tokens take context and KV cache like any other token: leave room for them.
Architecture: MoE 128 experts + shared · 8 global layers (no position embedding) + 24 sliding-window layers (4096 tokens), GQA 8 KV × 128 · vision encoder. Its KV cache is 2.9× smaller than if every layer used full attention, because most layers only keep a short window of recent tokens. Only 25B parameters are active per token, but all 219B must sit in memory: VRAM depends on the total, speed on the active part.
| Context per request | BF16 cache | FP8 cache |
|---|---|---|
| 8K tokens | 0.63 GiB | 0.31 GiB |
| 32K tokens | 1.38 GiB | 0.69 GiB |
| 128K tokens | 4.38 GiB | 2.19 GiB |
| 195.3125K tokens | 6.48 GiB | 3.24 GiB |
In BF16 the weights alone take 407 GiB (438 GB). In FP8 that is 205 GiB, and about 123 GiB with 4-bit quantization (Q4_K_M). Each request then adds KV cache: 0.63 GiB at 8K tokens and 1.38 GiB at 32K (BF16 cache).
No. Even in 4-bit it needs 6 RTX 4090s. In 4-bit it fits on a single DGX Spark (GB10) (128 GB).
No. Even in 4-bit it needs 5 RTX 5090s.
Yes. In 4-bit (Q4_K_M with llama.cpp) it needs a Mac with 192 GB of unified memory or more, of which macOS gives the GPU about 144 GB, for one request with an 8K-token context. In 8-bit (Q8_0) it needs 512 GB.
Yes. On a DGX Spark (128 GB) it fits in Q4_K_M (124 GiB with an 8K-token context); on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128 GB, whose GPU gets up to 96 GB, it does not fit even in 4-bit, with llama.cpp and one request.
On 2026-10-30, the cheapest on-demand setup is 6 × GeForce RTX 3090 (24 GB) with Q4_K_M weights on Vast.ai, at $0.726 per hour (about $529.98 per month). Next: 8 × NVIDIA L4 (24 GB) with 4-bit weights on Vast.ai, at $0.832 per hour. Sized for one 8K-token request; prices are checked every hour.
With one request and an 8K-token context: 7 in BF16, 4 in FP8 and 2 in 4-bit (vLLM, 90% of memory usable). Serving many users at once needs more memory for their KV caches: the calculator sizes that for you.
Yes. Command A+ reads text and images. Images add tokens to the context, so they also add KV cache.
Yes, Command A+ supports tool (function) calling: it can ask your application to run a function and use the result.
Adjustable reasoning effort. Reasoning tokens count toward the context and the KV cache.
For a model card or a README: the 4-bit size and the smallest GPU it fits on, linked to this page. Data as JSON: /api/models/command-a-plus.json.
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Estimates, not guarantees: computed from the official config.json with the same engine as the LLM VRAM Calculator. Real usage depends on your engine version and settings.