Model comparison

Command A vs Llama 3-70B

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Llama 3-70B Meta

28.8

Rank #323 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 3-70B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 12.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.3% for Command A and 54.2% for Llama 3-70B.

Side by side

Command A and Llama 3-70B specifications
Command ALlama 3-70B
ProviderCohereMeta
Noometry Index36.528.8
Released2025-03-132024-04-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2431

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Category by category

Coding Llama 3-70B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Llama 3-70B: 35.8 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Coding13301206
Aider Polyglot12%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.6%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.5%
HumanEval+—72%
MBPP+—69%

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Llama 3-70B: 21.1 (#139)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—
Cybench—5%

Reasoning Too close to call

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Llama 3-70B: 18.0 (#288)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%35.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13261195
DTBench61.3%54.2%
LMCA10.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—122.93
ForecastBench—57.1
WinoGrande—83.5%

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Llama 3-70B: 12.8 (#305)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Math13001218
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—4.3%
MATH Level 5—22.6%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Llama 3-70B: 20.8 (#277)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Expert12951149
GPQA Diamond—40.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
MMLU—79.3%

Multilingual Command A leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Llama 3-70B: 33.6 (#251)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Non-English13131142
LMArena Chinese13271114
LMArena French13511232
LMArena German13411169
LMArena Japanese12851017
LMArena Korean12851017
LMArena Russian13141159
LMArena Spanish13471241

Instruction Following Command A leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Llama 3-70B: 62.5 (#238)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Instruction Following13091194

Long Context Command A leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Llama 3-70B: 35.6 (#240)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Longer Query13341174

Writing & Preference Command A leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Llama 3-70B: 42.8 (#231)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALlama 3-70B
LMArena Text13311221
LMArena Creative Writing13191210
LMArena Multi-Turn13391223
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Llama 3-70B?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command A or Llama 3-70B better for coding?

Llama 3-70B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Llama 3-70B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-70B has 31.

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