Model comparison
Command A vs Nova 2.0 Pro Preview
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.7 to 21.9.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 32.8 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-12-02 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 24 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Command A: 26.8 (#317), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 40.2 (#130)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| SciCode | — | 42.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1331 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.7 (#36), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 2% |
Reasoning Nova 2.0 Pro Preview leads
Command A: 17.7 (#276), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: 21.7 (#189)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Not comparable
Command A: 33.5 (#172), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Command A: 36.5 (#157), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command A: 45.5 (#166), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | — |
| LMArena French | 1352 | — |
| LMArena German | 1341 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Command A: 69.3 (#172), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Command A: 40.6 (#147), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Command A: 47.8 (#204), Nova 2.0 Pro Preview: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova 2.0 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Nova 2.0 Pro Preview?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 32.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Command A or Nova 2.0 Pro Preview better for coding?
Nova 2.0 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Nova 2.0 Pro Preview has 3.