Model comparison

Command A vs Mistral Small 3.2

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 31.2 on the Noometry Index. Mistral Small 3.2 costs 33× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 2 shared benchmarks.

Command A

Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Mistral Small 3.2

Mistral AI

31.2

Rank #280 Confirmed

Summary

They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Small 3.2 in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 26.7.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 40.4% for Mistral Small 3.2.
Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper at $0.0938 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.

Side by side

Command A and Mistral Small 3.2 specifications
	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
Provider	Cohere	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	36.5	31.2
Released	2025-03-13	2025-06-20
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	256K	256K
Max output	8K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$2.50	$0.0938
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$0.25
Results tracked	24	6

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
Aider Polyglot	12%	—
LMArena Coding	1330	—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	57.1%	—

Reasoning Too close to call

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Mistral Small 3.2: 18.1 (#287)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
Kagi LLM Benchmark	28.8%	40.4%
Chess Puzzles	—	1%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1326	—
DTBench	61.3%	—
LMCA	10.3%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	131.74

Math Command A leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.3 (#260)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	30.3%
LMArena Math	1300	—

Knowledge Command A leads

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Mistral Small 3.2: 26.7 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
GPQA Diamond	—	49.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	9.3%	—
LMArena Expert	1295	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
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 Small 3.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Instruction Following	1309	—

Long Context Not comparable

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Mistral Small 3.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
LMArena Longer Query	1334	—

Writing & Preference Command A leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Mistral Small 3.2: 45.0 (#224)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Command A	Mistral Small 3.2
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1145	1255
LMArena Text	1331	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1319	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1339	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Mistral Small 3.2?

Which is cheaper, Command A or Mistral Small 3.2?

Mistral Small 3.2 is cheaper. It lists at $0.0938 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 256K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Mistral Small 3.2 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Small 3.2 has 6.