Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Command A

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Command A in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 51.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 12% for Command A.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Command A specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index34.636.5
Released2024-06-202025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked6024

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Command A: 27.2 (#322)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
Aider Polyglot51.6%12%
LMArena Coding13421330
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Command A: 35.9 (#40)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—57.1%
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Command A: 18.3 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Hard Prompts13051326
DTBench67.8%61.3%
SimpleBench41.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
LMCA—10.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Command A leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Command A: 36.2 (#171)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Math13071300
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Command A leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Command A: 37.1 (#159)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Expert12651295
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Command A: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Command A leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Command A: 45.3 (#170)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Non-English12831313
LMArena Chinese12721327
LMArena French13051351
LMArena German12971341
LMArena Japanese12341285
LMArena Korean12001285
LMArena Russian13061314
LMArena Spanish12901347

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Command A: 69.1 (#177)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Instruction Following12971309
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Command A: 40.6 (#151)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Longer Query13111334

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Command A: 47.6 (#208)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Text12981331
LMArena Creative Writing12921319
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14511145
LMArena Multi-Turn13261339
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
WildBench79.2%—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Command A?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Command A better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Command A share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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