Model comparison

Command A vs GPT-4.5

Command A and GPT-4.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 36.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

35.9

Rank #212 Confirmed

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

36.9

Rank #200 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-4.5 in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where GPT-4.5 leads 41.8 to 26.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 44.9% for GPT-4.5.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command A and GPT-4.5 specifications
Command AGPT-4.5
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index35.936.9
Released2025-03-132025-02-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2442

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

Command A: 26.8 (#317), GPT-4.5: 41.8 (#102)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
Aider Polyglot12%44.9%
LMArena Coding13311397
WeirdML—39.4%
LiveBench Coding—75.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.7 (#36), GPT-4.5: 27.6 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—
Cybench—17.5%

Reasoning Command A leads

Command A: 17.7 (#276), GPT-4.5: 14.1 (#320)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Hard Prompts13261404
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—34.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
ARC-AGI-1—10.3%
EnigmaEval—3.2%
LiveBench Reasoning—71.1%
DTBench61.3%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—64.3%
LMCA10.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—136.74
ForecastBench—61.7
LiveBench—69%

Math Command A leads

Command A: 33.5 (#172), GPT-4.5: 31.0 (#200)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Math13001412
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—37.8%
LiveBench Math—69.3%
MATH Level 5—78.6%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 36.5 (#157), GPT-4.5: 32.4 (#205)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Expert12951394
GPQA Diamond—68.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—5.4%
Confabulations—13.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, GPT-4.5: 37.0 (#68)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Vision—1195
VPCT—45%

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

Command A: 45.5 (#166), GPT-4.5: 52.7 (#78)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Non-English13131413
LMArena Chinese13271421
LMArena French13521417
LMArena German13411457
LMArena Japanese12831416
LMArena Korean12851392
LMArena Russian13141419
LMArena Spanish1346—

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

Command A: 69.3 (#172), GPT-4.5: 72.8 (#129)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Instruction Following13091404
LiveBench Instruction Following—72.3%

Long Context Too close to call

Command A: 40.6 (#147), GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#150)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Longer Query13341406
Fiction.LiveBench—63.9%

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

Command A: 47.8 (#204), GPT-4.5: 57.1 (#129)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-4.5
LMArena Text13311417
LMArena Creative Writing13191394
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11451258
LMArena Multi-Turn13381444
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.6%
LiveBench Language—61.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than GPT-4.5?

Command A and GPT-4.5 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (35.9 vs 36.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Command A or GPT-4.5 better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command A and GPT-4.5 share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4.5 has 42.

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