Model comparison
Command A vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
GoogleSummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 7 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.9 to 17.9.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 32.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2024-02-15 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1294 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 74.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1296 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 59% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1315 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 23.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 70.4% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1279 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 57.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |
| MMLU | — | 86.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command A: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |
Multilingual Too close to call
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1302 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1311 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1297 |
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |
Long Context Too close to call
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1296 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.