# Command A Translate (08-2025) > Cohere's enterprise translation model for 23 languages, with private deployment - Maker: Cohere - Line: Command A Translate - Canonical page: https://ai-tldr.dev/models/command-a-translate-08-2025/ - Updated: 2026-06-18 ## In short Command A Translate (08-2025) is Cohere's enterprise translation model for 23 languages, with private deployment. You can use it through Cohere. ## Facts | Fact | Value | Source | | --- | --- | --- | | Context window | 16K tokens (8K input + 8K output) (max output 8K tokens) | [1] | | Licence | CC-BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial) plus Cohere's Acceptable Use Policy for the open weights; commercial use requires a Cohere agreement · open weights | [1] | | Released | 28 August 2025 | [2] | | Parameters | 111B | [1] | | Knowledge cutoff | Not published by Cohere | [1] | ## Sources 1. [Hugging Face model card (CohereLabs/command-a-translate-08-2025)](https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/command-a-translate-08-2025) 2. [Cohere announcement: Command A Translate](https://docs.cohere.com/changelog/2025-08-28-command-a-translate) ## Overview Command A Translate (model ID command-a-translate-08-2025) is Cohere's dedicated machine-translation model, announced on August 28, 2025. It is a 111-billion-parameter dense decoder-only Transformer built on top of Cohere's flagship Command A (03-2025) model and specialized for high-quality translation across 23 business languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, and Persian. The model has a 16K-token context window (8K for input, 8K for output) and is text-only. Cohere positions Command A Translate as an enterprise-grade, secure alternative to general-purpose chat models and standalone translation services, emphasizing data control: it can run through the Cohere platform's API, as a private deployment, or fully on-premises on one or two A100/H100 GPUs. The open weights were released for research on Hugging Face under a CC-BY-NC license plus Cohere's Acceptable Use Policy, with commercial use handled through a Cohere agreement. A distinguishing feature is Deep Translation, an agentic, multi-step refinement workflow that iteratively improves draft translations before delivery for more complex translation tasks. Cohere reports that on the WMT24++ benchmark (English into 55 languages and dialects, scored with the xCOMET-XL quality metric) Command A Translate outperforms the systems it was compared against — including GPT-5, DeepSeek-V3, DeepL, and Google Translate — on all evaluated languages except Hebrew and Hindi, and that adding Deep Translation pushes quality higher still. ## Strengths - High translation quality across 23 enterprise languages, reported by Cohere to beat GPT-5, DeepSeek-V3, DeepL, and Google Translate on most WMT24++ language pairs - Deep Translation: an agentic, multi-step refinement workflow that raises quality on harder content - Data control and security: available as a private deployment or on-prem install (one or two A100/H100 GPUs) - Open weights released for research on Hugging Face - Specialized model rather than a general chat LLM, tuned specifically for translation with difficulty-filtered data and DPO ## Best for - Enterprise document and content translation across 23 languages - Secure or regulated workflows that require private/on-prem deployment and full data control - Localization pipelines where higher quality justifies an agentic Deep Translation refinement pass - Translating business-critical content (legal, financial, technical) in supported non-Latin scripts such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew - Research and evaluation of state-of-the-art machine translation using the open weights ## How to access - [Cohere](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/command-a-translate) — model id `command-a-translate-08-2025` ## Command A Translate versions - Command A Translate (08-2025) (28 August 2025) — this page ## FAQ ### What is Command A Translate? Command A Translate (model ID command-a-translate-08-2025) is Cohere's dedicated machine-translation model, released August 28, 2025. It is a 111B-parameter decoder-only Transformer built on Command A (03-2025) and specialized for high-quality translation across 23 languages. ### How many languages does it support? 23 languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, and Persian. ### What is Deep Translation? Deep Translation is an agentic, multi-step refinement workflow that iteratively improves draft translations before delivery. Cohere reports it raises quality further on complex translation tasks, adding roughly +2 xCOMET-XL over the best competing system it was measured against. ### Is Command A Translate open weights, and how much does it cost? The weights are released for research on Hugging Face under a CC-BY-NC license plus Cohere's Acceptable Use Policy; commercial use requires a Cohere agreement. Cohere does not publish per-token API pricing for the Translate model — it is offered through the Cohere platform or as a private/on-prem deployment via Cohere's sales team. ## Links - [Cohere announcement: Command A Translate](https://docs.cohere.com/changelog/2025-08-28-command-a-translate) - [Cohere docs: Command A Translate](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/command-a-translate) - [Hugging Face model card (CohereLabs/command-a-translate-08-2025)](https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/command-a-translate-08-2025) - [Cohere pricing](https://cohere.com/pricing) - [WMT 2025 paper: Raising the Bar of Machine Translation with Difficulty Filtering](https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.55.pdf) - [Slator: Cohere Targets Enterprise AI Translation with Command A Translate](https://slator.com/cohere-enterprise-ai-translation-command-a-translate/) Source: AI/TLDR LLM registry, https://ai-tldr.dev/models/command-a-translate-08-2025/