Today, we’re introducing Command A Translate, a state-of-the-art model specifically designed for high-quality translation tasks. It consistently outperforms all other models, including GPT-5, DeepSeek-V3, DeepL Pro’s LLM, and Google Translate. We can also push its quality even higher through Deep Translation, our new agentic approach that uses a multi-step process to refine translations.

Command A Translate delivers industry-leading performance while offering enterprises full control of their data through private deployment options. Translation frequently involves handling sensitive business documents, such as contracts, financial reports, and materials with confidential customer information that shouldn’t be exposed to consumer services. For global companies operating across multiple languages, it ensures translations remain precise, reliable, and highly secure.

Deep Translation Elevates Leading Translation Quality

Command A Translate is built for enterprises that prioritize high-quality translations to reduce rewrites, lower costs, and enable teams across geographies to work together seamlessly. The model excels at key translation benchmarks, including speech, news, social media, and literary text. It achieves best-in-class results across a wide range of business languages.

On the WMT24++ dataset, Command A Translate achieved a best-in-class xCometXL score of 83.8, and a score of 84.4 with Deep Translation. This shows the average xCometXL score for the 23 languages covered by Command A Translate on the English to L2 datasets of WMT24++. *DeepL Pro does not cover Hindi and Persian and the numbers for those languages were estimated through nearest neighbor imputation.

Performance can be further enhanced through our innovative agentic approach: Deep Translation. Deep Translation achieves unmatched quality through iterative reasoning for more complex translation use cases. It allows the model to gradually refine translations through multiple steps improving fluency and naturalness, ensuring the output reads as if originally written in the target language. This is especially valuable for use cases with the highest quality bar, like translating legal documents. Deep Translation is available today by request, reach out to learn more.

To meet the needs of global enterprises, the model supports translation across 23 widely used business languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Czech, Indonesian, Ukrainian, Romanian, Greek, Hindi, Hebrew, and Persian.

Privately deployable and fine-tunable

For enterprises needing to translate sensitive information without sending it to an external service, Command A Translate can be privately hosted behind your secured firewalls. This allows businesses to break down internal language silos while maintaining complete control over their data.

Due to its efficient design, Command A Translate can be deployed with minimal hardware requirements. For low footprint deployments, enterprises can bring it to production on one GPU (H100/A100) using 4-bit quantization without a noticeable decrease in translation quality (less than 0.5 xCometXL points).

For those organizations with unique needs, from industry specific translations to supporting new languages, we offer fine-tuning and customization support for production use cases.

Why secure translation matters

Enterprises rely on translation for some of their most sensitive and business-critical documents. They cannot risk data leakage, compliance violations, or misunderstandings. Mistranslated documents can reduce trust and have strategic implications. Entire industries depend on translation as a core service, from localization providers to companies producing subtitles, advertising, and news at a global scale.

At Cohere, we use Command A Translate internally to ensure we have the highest quality multilingual data possible. Early testers like leading language and content solutions company RWS have confirmed Command A Translate’s strong performance across complex translation tasks.

"RWS and the Language Weaver team have been working closely with Cohere to evaluate their Command A Translate model, optimized for automated translation tasks. We rigorously tested it across 23 languages and multiple domains, comparing it against other leading providers using both automated metrics and human reviews from RWS’s professional linguists. Command A Translate consistently demonstrated world-class quality in every comparison, seamlessly handling complex challenges like numbers, names, and polysemous words with precision. We look forward to continuing this collaboration to deliver innovative AI-powered translation applications for customers." – Dragos Munteanu, Vice President of Research and Development, RWS

Availability

Command A Translate is available today on the Cohere platform and for research use on Hugging Face. If you are interested in private or on-prem deployments, please contact our sales team for bespoke pricing.

Command A Translate: Secure translation for global enterprises