Model comparison
Command A vs Qwen3 8B
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 14× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Command A's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 8B in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 8B leads 33.4 to 26.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 57.1% for Command A and 42.6% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B is cheaper at $0.18 / $0.70 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Command A accepts more context: 256K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Command A | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 8B leads
Command A: 26.8 (#317), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| SciCode | — | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1331 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.7 (#36), Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | 42.6% |
Reasoning Command A leads
Command A: 17.7 (#276), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 61.3% | 59.7% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | 8.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 136.17 |
Math Too close to call
Command A: 33.5 (#172), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 56.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1300 | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Command A: 36.5 (#157), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 4.8% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Command A: 45.5 (#166), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | — |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#147), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Command A: 47.8 (#204), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Qwen3 8B?
Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 8B costs 14× 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 Qwen3 8B?
Qwen3 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.70 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Command A does, with 256K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3 8B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.