Model comparison
Command A vs Grok 4
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 1 category and Grok 4 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 4 leads 49.9 to 26.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 79.6% for Grok 4.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Grok 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 47.8 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-07-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 48 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 4 leads
Command A: 26.8 (#317), Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | 79.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1331 | 1408 |
| WeirdML | — | 45.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.7 (#36), Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | 63% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.6% |
Reasoning Grok 4 leads
Command A: 17.7 (#276), Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 73.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1409 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 16% |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.5% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 66.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 28% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 146.46 |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.9 |
Math Grok 4 leads
Command A: 33.5 (#172), Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1422 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 84% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 60.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
Command A: 36.5 (#157), Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 87% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Command A: —, Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1211 |
| GeoBench | — | 45% |
Multilingual Grok 4 leads
Command A: 45.5 (#166), Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1428 |
| LMArena French | 1352 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1283 | 1396 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1376 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1409 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1419 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 leads
Command A: 69.3 (#172), Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1387 |
| IFEval | — | 94.9% |
Long Context Grok 4 leads
Command A: 40.6 (#147), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1409 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 94.4% |
Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads
Command A: 47.8 (#204), Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)
| Benchmark | Command A | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1412 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1397 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 79.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Grok 4?
Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Grok 4 better for coding?
Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Grok 4 share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.