Model comparison
Command A vs Mixtral 8x7B
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 6.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Mistral AISummary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 7 categories and Mixtral 8x7B in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Command A leads 37.1 to 11.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.3% for Command A and 49.6% for Mixtral 8x7B.
- Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper at $0.70 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 32K.
Side by side
| Command A | Mixtral 8x7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 27.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2023-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 32K |
| Max output | 8K | 32K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 38 |
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Category by category
Coding Mixtral 8x7B leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Mixtral 8x7B: 32.8 (#269)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1126 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 39.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 49.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Mixtral 8x7B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1115 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 49.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 118.47 |
| ForecastBench | — | 56.3 |
| HellaSwag | — | 86.7% |
| PIQA | — | 83.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 77.2% |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Mixtral 8x7B: 18.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1147 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 10.5% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 10% |
| GSM8K | — | 74.4% |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Mixtral 8x7B: 11.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1088 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 30.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 33.5% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 29.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 87.3% |
| MMLU | — | 70.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.2% |
Multilingual Command A leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Mixtral 8x7B: 29.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1077 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1055 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1166 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1114 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 931 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 968 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1090 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1111 |
Instruction Following Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Mixtral 8x7B: 51.0 (#297)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1109 |
| IFEval | — | 57.5% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Mixtral 8x7B: 33.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1103 |
Writing & Preference Command A leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Mixtral 8x7B: 34.2 (#270)
| Benchmark | Command A | Mixtral 8x7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1132 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1109 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1115 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Mixtral 8x7B?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index. Mixtral 8x7B costs 6.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Mixtral 8x7B?
Mixtral 8x7B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Mixtral 8x7B better for coding?
Mixtral 8x7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.8 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 32K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Mixtral 8x7B share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Mixtral 8x7B has 38.