Model comparison
Command A vs Gemma 2B
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
GoogleSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 2B in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Command A leads 47.6 to 24.0.
Side by side
| Command A | Gemma 2B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2024-02-21 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemma 2B leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1010 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 20.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 34.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 989 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 35.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 94.2 |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| PIQA | — | 77.3% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.4% |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1009 |
| GSM8K | — | 17.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Gemma 2B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 42.1% |
| BoolQ | — | 69.4% |
| MMLU | — | 42.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 53.2% |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 958 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 986 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 937 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | — |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 970 |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 981 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
| Benchmark | Command A | Gemma 2B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1002 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 987 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 945 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Gemma 2B?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Gemma 2B better for coding?
Gemma 2B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemma 2B share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2B has 23.