Command A Reasoning vs Claude Haiku 4.5
Side-by-side specs, pricing and capabilities. Both models run on Clade under one subscription, so you can switch between them in the same conversation.
Command A Reasoning comes from Cohere and Claude Haiku 4.5 from Anthropic. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.
Command A Reasoning holds more in a single conversation — 256K tokens against 200K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $1.00 / 1M tokens.
| Specification | Command A Reasoning | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Anthropic |
| Model ID | command-a-reasoning-08-2025 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 |
| Context window | 256K | 200K |
| Max output | 32K | 64K |
| Input price | $5.00 / 1M tokens | $1.00 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $20.00 / 1M tokens | $5.00 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Input types | text | text, image, file |
| Output types | text | text |
| Plan | All paid plans | All paid plans |
Which should you use?
Pick Command A Reasoning when…
- You need the larger context window — 256K against 200K.
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 when…
- Cost matters: input runs at $1.00 / 1M tokens versus $5.00 / 1M tokens.
- You want longer single responses — up to 64K output tokens.
- You need image and file input, which the other model does not accept.
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Try both on Clade
You do not have to choose. One Clade subscription gives you Command A Reasoning, Claude Haiku 4.5, and every other model on the platform.