Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Command A

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.3

Rank #50 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 9 categories and Command A in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 18.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 46.5% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 10.3% for Command A.
  • Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Command A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index50.336.5
Released2026-02-172025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M256K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$3$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$15$10
Results tracked5724

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.3 (#67), Command A: 27.2 (#322)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Coding15041330
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
Aider Polyglot—12%
LMArena WebDev1522—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#28), Command A: 35.9 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—57.1%
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#45), Command A: 18.3 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Hard Prompts14841326
DTBench89.9%61.3%
LMCA46.5%10.3%
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—28.8%
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.24—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 52.9 (#49), Command A: 36.2 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Math14621300
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.7 (#65), Command A: 37.1 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%9.3%
LMArena Expert15001295
GPQA Diamond87.4%—
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#68), Command A: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.4 (#41), Command A: 45.3 (#170)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Non-English14401313
LMArena Chinese14911327
LMArena French14651351
LMArena German14281341
LMArena Japanese14201285
LMArena Korean14111285
LMArena Russian14401314
LMArena Spanish14641347

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.4 (#25), Command A: 69.1 (#177)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Instruction Following14751309

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#44), Command A: 40.6 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Longer Query14791334

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.2 (#22), Command A: 47.6 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Command A
LMArena Text14581331
LMArena Creative Writing14351319
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18101145
LMArena Multi-Turn14641339
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Command A?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Command A?

Command A is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Command A better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Command A share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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