Model comparison
Command A vs Mixtral 8x22B
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Mistral AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 8 categories and Mixtral 8x22B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 15.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.3% for Command A and 55.1% for Mixtral 8x22B.
- Mixtral 8x22B is cheaper at $2 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 64K.
Side by side
| Command A | Mixtral 8x22B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2024-04-17 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 64K |
| Max output | 8K | 64K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Command A leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Mixtral 8x22B: 24.2 (#329)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1166 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 3.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 40.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 50.2% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 72% |
| MBPP+ | — | 64.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Mixtral 8x22B: 23.1 (#127)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Mixtral 8x22B leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Mixtral 8x22B: 19.9 (#248)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1150 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 55.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 122.03 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Mixtral 8x22B: 22.9 (#275)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1184 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 16.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 24.2% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Mixtral 8x22B: 15.1 (#293)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 34.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 46% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 33.4% |
| MMLU | — | 77.8% |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Mixtral 8x22B: 32.8 (#255)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1128 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1116 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1141 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1037 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1057 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1158 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1151 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Mixtral 8x22B: 57.7 (#266)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1147 |
| IFEval | — | 72.4% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Mixtral 8x22B: 34.7 (#247)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1144 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Mixtral 8x22B: 36.9 (#262)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x22B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1162 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1141 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1130 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 71.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Mixtral 8x22B?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Mixtral 8x22B?
Mixtral 8x22B is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Mixtral 8x22B better for coding?
Command A scores higher on coding benchmarks: 27.2 versus 24.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 64K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Mixtral 8x22B share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x22B has 34.