Model comparison

Command A vs Llama 2-13B

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 2-13B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where Command A leads 45.3 to 26.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.3% for Command A and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.

Side by side

Command A and Llama 2-13B specifications
Command ALlama 2-13B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index36.529.6
Released2025-03-132023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2432

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Category by category

Coding Llama 2-13B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding13301062
Aider Polyglot12%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning Command A leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Hard Prompts13261051
DTBench61.3%42.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMCA10.3%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—106.17
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Math13001065
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert12951030
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Command A leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English13131024
LMArena Chinese13271001
LMArena French13511044
LMArena German13411009
LMArena Japanese1285894
LMArena Korean1285953
LMArena Russian13141055
LMArena Spanish13471087

Instruction Following Command A leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following13091045

Long Context Command A leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query13341064

Writing & Preference Command A leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 2-13B
LMArena Text13311084
LMArena Creative Writing13191047
LMArena Multi-Turn13391050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Llama 2-13B?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command A or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Llama 2-13B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.9 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Llama 2-13B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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