Model comparison
Command A vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
GoogleSummary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 4 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.9 to 28.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 38.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 35.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | 38.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1350 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 37.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1346 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 63.2% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.36 |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1352 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1339 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| MMLU | — | 79.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command A: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1391 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1340 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | 1128 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.