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OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) vs Cohere: Command A+

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-30.

OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) Cohere: Command A+
Vendoropenaicohere
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score89.217.4
Input Price$1.00/M$0.30/M
Output Price$5.00/M$1.50/M
Context Window1,050,000192,000
Max Output128,00064,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index85.521.7

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Command A+ costs $0.68 and GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) costs $2.25, so Command A+ is about 3.3 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 288 pages for Command A+.

On our blended benchmark score GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) leads 89.2 to 17.4.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Command A+ on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (batch) if you need long documents, benchmark performance 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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)Cohere: Command A+
SQL Generation 143 132
Code Review 148 127
Code Completion 120 127
Code Refactoring 149 127
Bug Fixing 152 131
Unit Test Generation 134 122
Code Documentation 138 125
Regex Writing 127 121
CI/CD Pipelines 130 118
Frontend Component Design 132 124
Data Analysis 136 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 126
ETL Scripting 140 122
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 120 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 127
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 127
Long-Document Summarization 151 128
Short-Form Summarization 119 124
Blog Post Writing 131 120

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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