Model comparison

Command A vs Longcat Flash Chat

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 0 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 43.5 to 27.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 43.9% for Longcat Flash Chat.

Side by side

Command A and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
Command ALongcat Flash Chat
ProviderCohereMeituan
Noometry Index36.542.1
Released2025-03-13—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2419

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding13301471
Aider Polyglot12%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%43.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13261440
NYT Connections (extended)—17.7%
DTBench61.3%—
LMCA10.3%—

Math Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math13001442

Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert12951454
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English13131404
LMArena Chinese13271465
LMArena French13511456
LMArena German13411408
LMArena Japanese12851373
LMArena Korean12851371
LMArena Russian13141395
LMArena Spanish13471445

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13091411

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query13341425

Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand ALongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text13311427
LMArena Creative Writing13191388
LMArena Multi-Turn13391418
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command A or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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