Noometry

Model comparison

Command A vs Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA

40.0

Rank #155 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 2 categories and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning in 6 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads 40.4 to 27.2.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper at $0.05 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • Nemotron 3.5 Lightning accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.

Side by side

Command ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
ProviderCohereNVIDIA
Noometry Index36.540.0
Released2025-03-132026-08-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K262K
Max output8K262K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.05
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.20
Results tracked2418

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Category by category

Coding Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 40.4 (#141)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Coding13301375
Aider Polyglot12%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: —

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 26.8 (#127)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Hard Prompts13261337
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
DTBench61.3%—
LMCA10.3%—

Math Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#155)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Math13001359

Knowledge Too close to call

Command A: 37.1 (#159), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 37.5 (#154)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Expert12951356
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multilingual Command A leads

Command A: 45.3 (#170), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 44.0 (#180)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Non-English13131295
LMArena Chinese13271359
LMArena French13511366
LMArena German13411282
LMArena Japanese12851206
LMArena Korean12851238
LMArena Russian13141253
LMArena Spanish13471345

Instruction Following Too close to call

Command A: 69.1 (#177), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 69.6 (#170)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Instruction Following13091318

Long Context Too close to call

Command A: 40.6 (#151), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 39.9 (#165)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Longer Query13341314

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Command A: 47.6 (#208), Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: 48.5 (#201)

BenchmarkCommand ANemotron 3.5 Lightning
LMArena Text13311327
LMArena Creative Writing13191254
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11451280
LMArena Multi-Turn13391328

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is cheaper. It lists at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Nemotron 3.5 Lightning better for coding?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning has 18.

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