Model comparison
Command A vs Magistral Small
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Small costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Mistral AISummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Magistral Small in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Command A leads 18.3 to 6.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 6.3% for Magistral Small.
- Magistral Small is cheaper at $0.50 / $1.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Command A | Magistral Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 30.2 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-06-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 128K |
| Max output | 8K | 40K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $1.50 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Magistral Small leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Magistral Small: 38.4 (#176)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| SciCode | — | 35.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Magistral Small: 6.8 (#350)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 6.3% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 133.19 |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Magistral Small: 26.2 (#261)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 30% |
| LMArena Math | 1300 | — |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Magistral Small: 30.9 (#223)
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | — |
| LMArena French | 1351 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Magistral Small: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Magistral Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Magistral Small?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index. Magistral Small costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Magistral Small?
Magistral Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Magistral Small better for coding?
Magistral Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Magistral Small share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Magistral Small has 10.