Noometry

Model comparison

Command A vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 37.9 to 27.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.3% for Command A and 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
ProviderCohereGoogle
Noometry Index36.537.8
Released2025-03-132025-02-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2432

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Coding13301322
Aider Polyglot12%—
LiveBench Coding—47.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Hard Prompts13261324
DTBench61.3%52.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning—50.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA10.3%—
ForecastBench—57.1
LiveBench—54.3%

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Math13001309
Omni-MATH—37.4%
LiveBench Math—58.1%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Expert12951305
MMLU-Pro—72%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
GPQA (HELM)—50%

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Vision—1100

Multilingual Too close to call

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Non-English13131323
LMArena Chinese13271339
LMArena French13511347
LMArena German13411306
LMArena Japanese12851301
LMArena Korean12851325
LMArena Russian13141328
LMArena Spanish13471313

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Instruction Following13091305
LiveBench Instruction Following—78.3%
IFEval—82.4%

Long Context Too close to call

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Longer Query13341320

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)

BenchmarkCommand AGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
LMArena Text13311330
LMArena Creative Writing13191319
LMArena Multi-Turn13391307
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—
WildBench—79%
LiveBench Language—34.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command A or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.

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