Model comparison
Command A vs Nova Premier 1.0
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
CohereSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 3 categories and Nova Premier 1.0 in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Nova Premier 1.0 leads 23.0 to 18.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 44.8% for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Command A is cheaper at $2.50 / $10 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
- Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 256K.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Amazon |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 38.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-04-30 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 256K | 1M |
| Max output | 8K | 10K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $12.50 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 44.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Command A leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 35% |
| LMArena Math | 1300 | — |
Knowledge Command A leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 51.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Command A leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Nova Premier 1.0: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | — |
Writing & Preference Nova Premier 1.0 leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)
| Benchmark | Command A | Nova Premier 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 78.8% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Nova Premier 1.0?
Nova Premier 1.0 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.3 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Nova Premier 1.0?
Command A is cheaper. It lists at $2.50 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.
Which has the bigger context window?
Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Nova Premier 1.0 share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.