Model comparison

Command A vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 11 shared benchmarks.

Command A

Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.5

Rank #148 Confirmed

Summary

They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in coding, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 40.5 to 27.2.
Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 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 4.2 8B specifications
	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
Provider	Cohere	IBM
Noometry Index	36.5	40.5
Released	2025-03-13	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	131K
Max output	8K	118K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$0.06
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$0.25
Results tracked	24	11

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding	1330	1380
Aider Polyglot	12%	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Granite 4.2 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	57.1%	—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1326	1329
Kagi LLM Benchmark	28.8%	—
DTBench	61.3%	—
LMCA	10.3%	—

Math Not comparable

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Granite 4.2 8B: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Math	1300	—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert	1295	1384
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	—

Multilingual Too close to call

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English	1313	1302
LMArena Chinese	1327	1366
LMArena Russian	1314	1285
LMArena French	1351	—
LMArena German	1341	—
LMArena Japanese	1285	—
LMArena Korean	1285	—
LMArena Spanish	1347	—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following	1309	1301

Long Context Too close to call

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query	1334	1324

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 8B leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Granite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text	1331	1320
LMArena Creative Writing	1319	1236
LMArena Multi-Turn	1339	1301
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1145	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do Command A and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.