Neither wins outright: Cohere: Command A+ is the pick when you need to fit long inputs in one request, LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B when cost matters at scale.
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
Workload (per month)
Cohere: Command A+
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B
Difference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$52.50
$17.75
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B saves $34.75
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$51.00
$13.00
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B saves $38.00
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
$54.00
$14.40
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B saves $39.60
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$33.00
$8.20
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B saves $24.80
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
$16.50
$3.20
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B saves $13.30
Capabilities side by side
Capability
Cohere: Command A+
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B
What it lets you do
Tool / function calling
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input
✓ Yes
—
read screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input
—
—
take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input
—
—
accept documents without your own parsing step
Image output
—
—
generate images, not just text
Built-in web search
—
—
answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities
—
✓ Yes
read token confidence for classification and scoring
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Price history
Cohere: Command A+: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-09-23.
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-10-14.
Which should you choose?
Choose Cohere: Command A+ if…
you need to fit long inputs in one request — 192K tokens is roughly 288 pages, against 192
you need image input — to read screenshots, charts and scanned pages; LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B does not advertise it
you generate long outputs in one go — up to 64K tokens (about 48,000 words) per response
Choose LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B if…
cost matters at scale — it is 65% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($17.75 vs $52.50 a month for 50,000 support chats)
you need log-probabilities — to read token confidence for classification and scoring; Cohere: Command A+ does not advertise it
Frequently asked questions
Is Cohere: Command A+ better than LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B?
Neither wins outright: Cohere: Command A+ is the pick when you need to fit long inputs in one request, LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B when cost matters at scale. In short: Cohere: Command A+ when you need to fit long inputs in one request, you need image input, you generate long outputs in one go; LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B when cost matters at scale, you need log-probabilities.
Which is cheaper, Cohere: Command A+ or LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B?
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B is cheaper: $0.21 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 65% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $17.75 against $52.50.
How much do Cohere: Command A+ and LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B cost per million tokens?
Cohere: Command A+ costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens; LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B costs $0.05 input and $0.70 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Which has the bigger context window, Cohere: Command A+ or LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B?
Cohere: Command A+: 192K tokens, about 288 pages, against 128K (about 192 pages) for LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B.
Do Cohere: Command A+ and LiquidAI: LFM2.5-24B-A2B support function calling and JSON output?
Command A+ is Cohere's flagship model for enterprise agentic workflows. It accepts text and image inputs with a 192K context window, supports native tool calling with strict tool schemas, structured...
LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Liquid AI with 24B total and 2.45B active parameters. It always reasons before answering and is built for agents that call tools. Liquid...