Mistral: Mistral Large 4 vs Cohere: Command A+
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-07.
| Mistral: Mistral Large 4 | Cohere: Command A+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | mistralai | cohere |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 17.4 |
| Input Price | $0.68/M | $0.30/M |
| Output Price | $2.09/M | $1.50/M |
| Context Window | 524,288 | 192,000 |
| Max Output | 262,144 | 64,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 21.7 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Command A+ costs $0.68 and Mistral Large 4 costs $1.20, so Command A+ is about 1.8 times cheaper for the same work.
Mistral Large 4 reads up to 524,288 tokens at once, roughly 786 pages of text, against about 288 pages for Command A+.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Mistral Large 4 scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Command A+ on 6 (Regex Writing, Frontend Component Design, Data Analysis and others).
Mistral Large 4 was released in October 2026 and Command A+ in September 2026.
Pick Mistral Large 4 if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Command A+ if you need lower cost.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Mistral: Mistral Large 4 | Cohere: Command A+ |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 132 |
| Code Review | 132 | 127 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 127 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 127 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 131 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 122 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 125 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 121 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 118 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 124 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 127 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 126 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 122 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 127 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 127 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 128 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 124 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 120 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →