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Command vs. Nemotron

A side-by-side comparison of release history, capabilities, licensing and model sizes.

Attribute Command Nemotron
Developer Cohere NVIDIA
Current generation Command A+ Nemotron 3 Ultra
Initial release 2021-11-15 2025-12-15
Instruct tuned Yes Yes
Coding Yes Yes
Finetuning Yes Yes
Open source Yes Yes
License Apache 2.0 OpenMDW-1.1
Model sizes 218B (25B active) 550B (55B active)
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Command

Command is Cohere's enterprise model family for agents, retrieval-augmented generation, multilingual work, and private deployment. Command A+ is the current open-weight generation.

Cohere develops enterprise language models with an emphasis on retrieval, citations, multilingual applications, tool use, and data sovereignty. Command A+, released in May 2026, is a 218B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 25B active parameters. It supports text and image input, reasoning, agentic workflows, 48 languages, and private deployment under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Nemotron

Nemotron is NVIDIA's open model family for efficient reasoning, coding, long-context analysis, and agent orchestration. Nemotron 3 Ultra is the current flagship.

NVIDIA introduced the Nemotron 3 family in December 2025 with Nano, Super, and Ultra tiers. Nemotron 3 Ultra, released in June 2026, is a 550B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer mixture-of-experts model with 55B active parameters and a one-million-token context window. It is optimized for long-running agent workflows, tool use, code, multilingual reasoning, and high-stakes retrieval. NVIDIA publishes the weights, training data, recipes, and fine-tuning workflows under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.

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