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Model comparison

Command A vs Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

35.9

Rank #212 Confirmed

Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI

38.6

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 2 categories and Mistral Large 3 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Large 3 leads 60.2 to 47.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 50.9% for Mistral Large 3.
  • Mistral Large 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • Mistral Large 3 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Command AMistral Large 3
ProviderCohereMistral AI
Noometry Index35.938.6
Released2025-03-132025-12-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K262K
Max output8K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.75
Results tracked2424

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Large 3 leads

Command A: 26.8 (#317), Mistral Large 3: 34.1 (#230)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Coding13311447
Aider Polyglot12%—
LMArena WebDev—1230

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.7 (#36), Mistral Large 3: —

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning Command A leads

Command A: 17.7 (#276), Mistral Large 3: 14.6 (#314)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%50.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13261429
NYT Connections (extended)—7.5%
Thematic Generalization—23%
DTBench61.3%—
LMCA10.3%—

Math Mistral Large 3 leads

Command A: 33.5 (#172), Mistral Large 3: 36.0 (#131)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Math13001415

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 36.5 (#157), Mistral Large 3: 35.5 (#173)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%14.5%
LMArena Expert12951421

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, Mistral Large 3: 37.6 (#65)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Vision—1222

Multilingual Mistral Large 3 leads

Command A: 45.5 (#166), Mistral Large 3: 52.6 (#79)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Non-English13131412
LMArena Chinese13271448
LMArena French13521456
LMArena German13411438
LMArena Japanese12831399
LMArena Korean12851384
LMArena Russian13141412
LMArena Spanish13461437

Instruction Following Mistral Large 3 leads

Command A: 69.3 (#172), Mistral Large 3: 74.1 (#104)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Instruction Following13091402

Long Context Mistral Large 3 leads

Command A: 40.6 (#147), Mistral Large 3: 43.1 (#102)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Longer Query13341413

Writing & Preference Mistral Large 3 leads

Command A: 47.8 (#204), Mistral Large 3: 60.2 (#100)

BenchmarkCommand AMistral Large 3
LMArena Text13311427
LMArena Creative Writing13191385
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11451412
LMArena Multi-Turn13381429

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Mistral Large 3?

Mistral Large 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Mistral Large 3 better for coding?

Mistral Large 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.1 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Large 3 does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Mistral Large 3 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Large 3 has 24.

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