Model comparison
Command A vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Command A leads 35.9 to 23.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 49.5% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
Side by side
| Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 8K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1412 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 41.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
Agentic & Tool Use Command A leads
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 49.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1372 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1365 |
Knowledge Too close to call
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1338 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1357 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1398 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1360 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1355 |
Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1365 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct does, with 262K tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.