Model comparison

Command A vs Mistral Nemo

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Nemo costs 29× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 12, 2026. 3 shared benchmarks.

Command A

Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo

Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 12.3.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 57.1% for Command A and 27.6% for Mistral Nemo.
Mistral Nemo is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 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 and Mistral Nemo specifications
	Command A	Mistral Nemo
Provider	Cohere	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	36.5	26.4
Released	2025-03-13	2024-07-01
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	128K
Max output	8K	128K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$0.15
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$0.15
Results tracked	24	10

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Mistral Nemo: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
Aider Polyglot	12%	—
LMArena Coding	1330	—

Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	57.1%	27.6%
BALROG	—	17.6%

Reasoning Mistral Nemo leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
DTBench	61.3%	48.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	28.8%	—
LMArena Hard Prompts	1326	—
LMCA	10.3%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	118.68
PIQA	—	83.5%

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
LMArena Math	1300	—
MATH Level 5	—	10.8%
GSM8K	—	84.2%

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond	—	29.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	—
LMArena Expert	1295	—
BoolQ	—	82.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Mistral Nemo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
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), Mistral Nemo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following	1309	—

Long Context Not comparable

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Mistral Nemo: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query	1334	—

Writing & Preference Command A leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1145	881
LMArena Text	1331	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1319	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1339	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Mistral Nemo?

Which is cheaper, Command A or Mistral Nemo?

Mistral Nemo 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.

Which has the bigger context window?

Command A does, with 256K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Mistral Nemo share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.