Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Command A
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Command A in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 10.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 51% for Claude 2.1 and 61.3% for Command A.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Command A | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 36.5 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2025-03-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 256K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 24 |
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Category by category
Coding Command A leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Command A: 27.2 (#322)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 12% |
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1330 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Command A: 35.9 (#40)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 57.1% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Command A: 18.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 61.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1326 |
| LMCA | — | 10.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | — |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
Math Command A leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Command A: 36.2 (#171)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1300 |
Knowledge Command A leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Command A: 37.1 (#159)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1295 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Command A: 45.3 (#170)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1327 |
| LMArena French | — | 1351 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1285 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1285 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1347 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Command A: 69.1 (#177)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1309 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Command A: 40.6 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1334 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Command A: 47.6 (#208)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1319 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1339 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Command A?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Command A better for coding?
Command A scores higher on coding benchmarks: 27.2 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Command A share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.