Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Command A

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

35.9

Rank #212 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Command A in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 33.5 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 53.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 61.3% for Command A.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetCommand A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index28.835.9
Released2024-02-292025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—256K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked3024

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Command A: 26.8 (#317)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Coding12231331
Aider Polyglot—12%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Command A: 35.7 (#36)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—57.1%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Command A: 17.7 (#276)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Hard Prompts11971326
DTBench53.6%61.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
LMCA—10.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Command A leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Command A: 33.5 (#172)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Math12131300
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Command A leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Command A: 36.5 (#157)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Expert11731295
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Command A: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Command A leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Command A: 45.5 (#166)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Non-English12051313
LMArena Chinese11881327
LMArena French12281352
LMArena German12041341
LMArena Japanese11311283
LMArena Korean11281285
LMArena Russian12271314
LMArena Spanish12041346

Instruction Following Command A leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Command A: 69.3 (#172)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Instruction Following12001309

Long Context Command A leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Command A: 40.6 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Longer Query12111334

Writing & Preference Command A leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Command A: 47.8 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetCommand A
LMArena Text12181331
LMArena Creative Writing11861319
LMArena Multi-Turn12271338
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1145

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Command A?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Command A better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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