Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Command A

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Command A in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 17% for Claude 3 Opus and 10.3% for Command A.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusCommand A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index29.536.5
Released2024-02-292025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked4624

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Command A: 27.2 (#322)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Coding12641330
Aider Polyglot—12%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Command A: 35.9 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—57.1%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Command A: 18.3 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Hard Prompts12451326
DTBench61.6%61.3%
LMCA17%10.3%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Command A: 36.2 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Math12731300
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Command A: 37.1 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Expert12231295
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Command A: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Command A: 45.3 (#170)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Non-English12581313
LMArena Chinese12481327
LMArena French12751351
LMArena German12581341
LMArena Japanese12041285
LMArena Korean11871285
LMArena Russian12801314
LMArena Spanish12461347

Instruction Following Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Command A: 69.1 (#177)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Instruction Following12481309
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Command A leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Command A: 40.6 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Longer Query12591334

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Command A: 47.6 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusCommand A
LMArena Text12621331
LMArena Creative Writing12351319
LMArena Multi-Turn12751339
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1145
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Command A?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Command A better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Command A share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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