Model comparison
Command A vs Gemma 2 9B
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 25.9 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 Gemma 2 9B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 9.7.
Side by side
| Command A | Gemma 2 9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 25.9 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2024-06-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 2 9B leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Gemma 2 9B: 29.4 (#304)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1173 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 34.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 22.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Gemma 2 9B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Gemma 2 9B: 15.9 (#309)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1171 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.2% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 36.4% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.83 |
| LiveBench | — | 28.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.7% |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Gemma 2 9B: 9.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1183 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 19.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 21% |
| GSM8K | — | 84.9% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Gemma 2 9B: 9.7 (#305)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1147 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.7% |
| MMLU | — | 72.1% |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Gemma 2 9B: 36.6 (#238)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1188 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1185 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1190 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1144 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1137 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1200 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1200 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Gemma 2 9B: 57.6 (#269)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1178 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 52.6% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Gemma 2 9B: 36.3 (#233)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1197 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Gemma 2 9B: 32.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2 9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1207 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1206 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | 841 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1193 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.5% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Gemma 2 9B?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Gemma 2 9B better for coding?
Gemma 2 9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemma 2 9B share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 9B has 35.