Cohere: Command A+ vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety

Neither wins outright: Cohere: Command A+ is the pick when you need to fit long inputs in one request, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety when cost matters at scale.

Key numbers

SpecCohere: Command A+NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety
ProviderCohereNvidia
Input price (per 1M tokens)$0.30$0.20
Output price (per 1M tokens)$1.50$0.20
Blended price (3:1 input/output)$0.60$0.20
Cheaper than … of all models we track50%69%
Context window192K tokens (~288 pages)131K tokens (~197 pages)
Larger context than … of all models37%22%
Max output per response64K tokens (~48,000 words)118K tokens (~88,500 words)
Input typestext, imagetext, image
Output typestexttext
Free variantNoYes
Listed since2026-09-222026-06-04
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What it costs for real workloads

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+NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content SafetyDifference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$52.50$19.00NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety saves $33.50
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$51.00$26.00NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety saves $25.00
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$26.40NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety saves $27.60
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$33.00$17.20NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety saves $15.80
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$10.20NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety saves $6.30

Capabilities side by side

CapabilityCohere: Command A+NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content SafetyWhat 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✓ Yesspend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input✓ Yes✓ Yesread 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✓ Yesrepeat 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

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 197
  • you need tool / function calling — to call your APIs and run agent loops; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety does not advertise it
  • you need structured output (JSON schema) — to return JSON that validates against your schema; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety does not advertise it
  • you want the newer model — released 2026-09-22, 4 months after the other

Choose NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety if…

  • cost matters at scale — it is 67% cheaper on a typical 3:1 input/output mix ($19.00 vs $52.50 a month for 50,000 support chats)
  • you generate long outputs in one go — up to 118K tokens (about 88,500 words) per response
  • you want to prototype at zero cost — a free variant is listed

Frequently asked questions

Is Cohere: Command A+ better than NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety?

Neither wins outright: Cohere: Command A+ is the pick when you need to fit long inputs in one request, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety when cost matters at scale. In short: Cohere: Command A+ when you need to fit long inputs in one request, you need tool / function calling, you need structured output (JSON schema), you want the newer model; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety when cost matters at scale, you generate long outputs in one go, you want to prototype at zero cost.

Which is cheaper, Cohere: Command A+ or NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety is cheaper: $0.20 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 67% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $19.00 against $52.50.

How much do Cohere: Command A+ and NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety cost per million tokens?

Cohere: Command A+ costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety costs $0.20 input and $0.20 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.

Which has the bigger context window, Cohere: Command A+ or NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety?

Cohere: Command A+: 192K tokens, about 288 pages, against 131K (about 197 pages) for NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety.

Do Cohere: Command A+ and NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety support function calling and JSON output?

Tool calling — Cohere: Command A+: yes, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — Cohere: Command A+: yes, NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: not advertised.

Can Cohere: Command A+ or NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety read images?

Yes, both accept image input.

Is Cohere: Command A+ or NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety free to use?

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety has a free variant (nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free). Free variants usually carry tighter rate limits.

What is the maximum output length of Cohere: Command A+ and NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety?

Cohere: Command A+ can write up to 64K tokens (about 48,000 words) per response; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety up to 118K (about 88,500 words).

When were Cohere: Command A+ and NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety released?

Cohere: Command A+ was listed on 2026-09-22; NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety on 2026-06-04.

About the two models

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Cohere: Command A+

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...

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