Model comparison

Command A vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 107× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 11, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Command A

Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 9.9.
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Command A and Granite 4.0 Micro specifications
	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
Provider	Cohere	IBM
Noometry Index	36.5	29.0
Released	2025-03-13	2025-10-02
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	131K
Max output	8K	118K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$0.017
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$0.11
Results tracked	24	8

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
Aider Polyglot	12%	—
LMArena Coding	1330	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	57.1%	—

Reasoning Too close to call

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
Kagi LLM Benchmark	28.8%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1326	—
DTBench	61.3%	—
LMCA	10.3%	—

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	2.8%
Omni-MATH	—	20.9%
LMArena Math	1300	—

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond	—	28.3%
MMLU-Pro	—	39.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	—
GPQA (HELM)	—	30.7%
LMArena Expert	1295	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English	1313	—
LMArena Chinese	1327	—
LMArena French	1351	—
LMArena German	1341	—
LMArena Japanese	1285	—
LMArena Korean	1285	—
LMArena Russian	1314	—
LMArena Spanish	1347	—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
IFEval	—	84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following	1309	—

Long Context Not comparable

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query	1334	—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text	1331	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1319	—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1145	—
WildBench	—	67%
LMArena Multi-Turn	1339	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Which is cheaper, Command A or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command A does, with 256K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.