Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Command A
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 2 categories and Command A in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.9 to 16.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 25% for Amazon Nova Pro and 57.1% for Command A.
- Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper at $0.80 / $3.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 256K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Command A | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 36.5 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-03-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | 256K |
| Max output | 10K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | $10 |
| Results tracked | 38 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Command A: 27.2 (#322)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1330 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Command A: 35.9 (#40)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 57.1% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Pro leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Command A: 18.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1326 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LMCA | — | 10.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Command A: 36.2 (#171)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1300 |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
Knowledge Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Command A: 37.1 (#159)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1295 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Command A: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Command A: 45.3 (#170)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1327 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1351 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1285 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1285 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1347 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Command A: 69.1 (#177)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1309 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
Long Context Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Command A: 40.6 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1334 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Command A: 47.6 (#208)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1331 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1319 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1339 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1145 |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Command A?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index. Amazon Nova Pro costs 3.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Command A?
Amazon Nova Pro is cheaper. It lists at $0.80 per million input tokens and $3.20 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Command A better for coding?
Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Command A share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.