Model comparison
Command A vs GPT-4 Turbo
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 6 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 9.0.
- Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | GPT-4 Turbo | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 30.5 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2023-11-06 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $30 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-4 Turbo leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1268 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 18% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 48.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 86.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 73.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), GPT-4 Turbo: —
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 36.7% |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1251 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 61.6% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | 9.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 25.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.25 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.4 |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1272 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 0.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 6.7% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1223 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 46.6% |
| Confabulations | — | 28.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| MMLU | — | 81.3% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command A: —, GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1090 |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1245 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1242 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1276 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1259 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1194 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1259 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1260 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1249 |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1254 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Command A: 47.6 (#208), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Command A | GPT-4 Turbo |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1272 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1269 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1267 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than GPT-4 Turbo?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Command A or GPT-4 Turbo?
Command A is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.
Is Command A or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?
GPT-4 Turbo scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and GPT-4 Turbo share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.