Command A Reasoning vs Mistral Medium 3.5
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 Mistral Medium 3.5 from Mistral. The practical difference for most people is context, price, and which input types each one accepts.
Mistral Medium 3.5 holds more in a single conversation — 262K tokens against 256K — which matters for long documents and large codebases.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens at $1.50 / 1M tokens.
| Specification | Command A Reasoning | Mistral Medium 3.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral |
| Model ID | command-a-reasoning-08-2025 | mistral-medium-latest |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input price | $5.00 / 1M tokens | $1.50 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $20.00 / 1M tokens | $7.50 / 1M tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — |
| Input types | text | text, image |
| Output types | text | text |
| Plan | All paid plans | All paid plans |
Which should you use?
Pick Command A Reasoning when…
- You want longer single responses — up to 32K output tokens.
Pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when…
- You need the larger context window — 262K against 256K.
- Cost matters: input runs at $1.50 / 1M tokens versus $5.00 / 1M tokens.
- You need image 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, Mistral Medium 3.5, and every other model on the platform.