Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Command A

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Command A in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 43.5 to 27.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 61.3% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 12% for Command A.
  • Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
  • Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 200K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Command A specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Command A
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Noometry Index40.836.5
Released2025-05-222025-03-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K256K
Max output64K8K
Input $ / M tokens$3$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$15$10
Results tracked5824

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Command A: 27.2 (#322)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
Aider Polyglot61.3%12%
LMArena Coding14141330
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Command A: 35.9 (#40)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—57.1%
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Command A: 18.3 (#283)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%28.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13721326
DTBench77.1%61.3%
LMCA29%10.3%
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Command A: 36.2 (#171)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
LMArena Math13751300
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Command A: 37.1 (#159)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%9.3%
LMArena Expert13721295
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Command A: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Command A: 45.3 (#170)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
LMArena Non-English13331313
LMArena Chinese13501327
LMArena French13631351
LMArena German13311341
LMArena Japanese13021285
LMArena Korean12911285
LMArena Russian13551314
LMArena Spanish13571347

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Command A: 69.1 (#177)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
LMArena Instruction Following13761309
IFEval84%—

Long Context Command A leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Command A: 40.6 (#151)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
LMArena Longer Query13981334
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Command A: 47.6 (#208)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Command A
LMArena Text13511331
LMArena Creative Writing13451319
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14831145
LMArena Multi-Turn13761339
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Command A?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 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 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Command A better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command A does, with 256K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Command A share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.

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