Model comparison
Command A vs Grok 3
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Grok 3 in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 3 leads 41.5 to 26.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 53.3% for Grok 3.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Grok 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 39.6 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Command A: 26.8 (#317), Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | 53.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1331 | 1432 |
| WeirdML | — | 37.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.7 (#36), Grok 3: 30.2 (#69)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 17.7 (#276), Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 61.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1433 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.34 |
Math Grok 3 leads
Command A: 33.5 (#172), Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1390 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Command A: 36.5 (#157), Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 5.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1420 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Command A: 45.5 (#166), Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1411 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1448 |
| LMArena French | 1352 | 1460 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1283 | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1374 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1417 |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Command A: 69.3 (#172), Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1409 |
| IFEval | — | 88.4% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#147), Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1439 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Command A: 47.8 (#204), Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1414 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | 1424 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| WildBench | — | 84.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Grok 3?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Grok 3 better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Grok 3 share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.