Model comparison

Command A vs GPT-5 Pro

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index. Command A costs 9.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.4

Rank #64 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5 Pro in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 Pro leads 38.9 to 18.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 76.8% for GPT-5 Pro.
  • Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 256K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command A and GPT-5 Pro specifications
Command AGPT-5 Pro
ProviderCohereOpenAI
Noometry Index36.546.4
Released2025-03-132025-10-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window256K400K
Max output8K272K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$15
Output $ / M tokens$10$120
Results tracked2412

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Pro leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
Aider Polyglot12%—
WeirdML—60.4%
LMArena Coding1330—
AlgoTune—1.31

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), GPT-5 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%76.8%
ARC-AGI-2—18.3%
SimpleBench—61.6%
ARC-AGI-1—70.2%
EnigmaEval—18.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts1326—
DTBench61.3%—
LMCA10.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—150.28

Math GPT-5 Pro leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—55.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—19.5%
LMArena Math1300—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—14.6%

Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
Humanity's Last Exam—31.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1295—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command A: 45.3 (#170), GPT-5 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Non-English1313—
LMArena Chinese1327—
LMArena French1351—
LMArena German1341—
LMArena Japanese1285—
LMArena Korean1285—
LMArena Russian1314—
LMArena Spanish1347—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Command A: 69.1 (#177), GPT-5 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1309—

Long Context Not comparable

Command A: 40.6 (#151), GPT-5 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1334—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Command A: 47.6 (#208), GPT-5 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AGPT-5 Pro
LMArena Text1331—
LMArena Creative Writing1319—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than GPT-5 Pro?

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index. Command A costs 9.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Command A or GPT-5 Pro?

Command A is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.

Is Command A or GPT-5 Pro better for coding?

GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and GPT-5 Pro share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Pro has 12.

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