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Model comparison

Command A vs Ministral 8B

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Ministral 8B Mistral AI

28.2

Rank #325 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 7 categories and Ministral 8B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 57.1% for Command A and 11.1% for Ministral 8B.
  • Ministral 8B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • Ministral 8B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Command AMinistral 8B
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index36.528.2
Released2025-03-132024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K262K
Max output8K262K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.15
Results tracked2417

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Category by category

Coding Ministral 8B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Ministral 8B: 35.0 (#230)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Coding13301202
Aider Polyglot12%—

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Ministral 8B: 16.4 (#148)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%11.1%

Reasoning Too close to call

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Ministral 8B: 18.4 (#281)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13261191
DTBench61.3%45.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
LMCA10.3%—

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Ministral 8B: 25.7 (#267)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Math13001188
MATH Level 5—14.9%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Ministral 8B: 12.6 (#297)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%7.4%
LMArena Expert12951170
GPQA Diamond—27.1%

Multilingual Command A leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Ministral 8B: 35.1 (#247)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Non-English13131165
LMArena Chinese13271193
LMArena Russian13141195
LMArena French1351—
LMArena German1341—
LMArena Japanese1285—
LMArena Korean1285—
LMArena Spanish1347—

Instruction Following Command A leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Ministral 8B: 60.5 (#250)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Instruction Following13091161

Long Context Command A leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Ministral 8B: 36.7 (#227)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Longer Query13341212

Writing & Preference Command A leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Ministral 8B: 39.6 (#246)

BenchmarkCommand AMinistral 8B
LMArena Text13311191
LMArena Creative Writing13191175
LMArena Multi-Turn13391166
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Ministral 8B?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 28.2 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 8B costs 29× 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 Ministral 8B?

Ministral 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Ministral 8B better for coding?

Ministral 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.0 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Ministral 8B does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Ministral 8B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 8B has 17.

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