Model comparison
Command A vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Command A leads 45.3 to 27.2.
Side by side
| Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 31.6 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1112 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29.3% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 35.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1092 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1143 |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1087 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1060 |
| 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), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1088 |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1122 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285)
| Benchmark | Command A | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1063 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.7 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.