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+
Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview
Difference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$52.50
$72.50
Cohere: Command A+ saves $20.00
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$51.00
$61.00
Cohere: Command A+ saves $10.00
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
Doesn't fit context
—
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$33.00
$39.00
Cohere: Command A+ saves $6.00
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
Doesn't fit context
—
Capabilities side by side
Capability
Cohere: Command A+
Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview
What it lets you do
Tool / function calling
✓ Yes
—
call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)
✓ Yes
—
return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input
✓ Yes
✓ 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
—
repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities
—
—
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.
Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview: price unchanged since we started tracking it on 2026-10-16.
Which should you choose?
Choose Cohere: Command A+ if…
cost matters at scale — it is 29% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($52.50 vs $72.50 a month for 50,000 support chats)
you need to fit long inputs in one request — 192K tokens is roughly 288 pages, against 48
you need tool / function calling — to call your APIs and run agent loops; Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview does not advertise it
you need structured output (JSON schema) — to return JSON that validates against your schema; Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview does not advertise it
you need seed (reproducible sampling) — to repeat a generation for tests and evals; Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview does not advertise it
you generate long outputs in one go — up to 64K tokens (about 48,000 words) per response
Choose Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview if…
No advantage on the data we track — pick it for provider preference or output quality on your own prompts.
Frequently asked questions
Is Cohere: Command A+ better than Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview?
Cohere: Command A+ comes out ahead on the data we track: 6 advantages and none for Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview.
Which is cheaper, Cohere: Command A+ or Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview?
Cohere: Command A+ is cheaper: $0.60 vs $0.85 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 29% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $52.50 against $72.50.
How much do Cohere: Command A+ and Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview cost per million tokens?
Cohere: Command A+ costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens; Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview costs $0.30 input and $2.50 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Which has the bigger context window, Cohere: Command A+ or Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview?
Cohere: Command A+: 192K tokens, about 288 pages, against 32K (about 48 pages) for Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview.
Do Cohere: Command A+ and Moondream: Moondream 3 Preview 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...
Moondream 3 Preview is a vision-language model from Moondream with 9B total parameters and 2B active (mixture-of-experts). It handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning over images, with...