Model comparison

Command A vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 17 shared benchmarks.

Command A

Cohere

35.9

Rank #212 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5

Mistral AI

39.6

Rank #151 Confirmed

Summary

They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 1 category and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Mistral Medium 3.5 leads 58.6 to 47.8.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 41.4% for Mistral Medium 3.5.
Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
Mistral Medium 3.5 accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Command A and Mistral Medium 3.5 specifications
	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
Provider	Cohere	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	35.9	39.6
Released	2025-03-13	—
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	262K
Max output	8K	210K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$1.50
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$7.50
Results tracked	24	22

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Category by category

Coding Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 26.8 (#317), Mistral Medium 3.5: 35.7 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Coding	1331	1461
Aider Polyglot	12%	—
LMArena WebDev	—	1263

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.7 (#36), Mistral Medium 3.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	57.1%	—

Reasoning Command A leads

Command A: 17.7 (#276), Mistral Medium 3.5: 16.6 (#290)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark	28.8%	41.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1326	1436
NYT Connections (extended)	—	12.9%
DTBench	61.3%	—
LMCA	10.3%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	141.42

Math Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 33.5 (#172), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.4 (#113)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math	1300	1432

Knowledge Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 36.5 (#157), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.3 (#123)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert	1295	1431
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Command A: —, Mistral Medium 3.5: 37.6 (#64)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision	—	1222

Multilingual Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 45.5 (#166), Mistral Medium 3.5: 52.1 (#93)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English	1313	1405
LMArena Chinese	1327	1443
LMArena French	1352	1448
LMArena German	1341	1453
LMArena Korean	1285	1387
LMArena Russian	1314	1396
LMArena Spanish	1346	1406
LMArena Japanese	1283	—

Instruction Following Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 69.3 (#172), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.7 (#87)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following	1309	1414

Long Context Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 40.6 (#147), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#101)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query	1334	1414

Writing & Preference Mistral Medium 3.5 leads

Command A: 47.8 (#204), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.6 (#113)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text	1331	1421
LMArena Creative Writing	1319	1372
LMArena Multi-Turn	1338	1423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1145	—
EQ-Bench 4	—	993

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Mistral Medium 3.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.7 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Mistral Medium 3.5 does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.