Noometry

Model comparison

Command A vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

35.9

Rank #212 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #82 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3 Max leads 42.4 to 26.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 72.5% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A.
  • Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 256K.
  • Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Command AQwen3 Max
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index35.943.5
Released2025-03-132025-09-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window256K262K
Max output8K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$10$6
Results tracked2433

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 26.8 (#317), Qwen3 Max: 42.4 (#93)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding13311456
Aider Polyglot12%—
ALE-Bench—370.45

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.7 (#36), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 17.7 (#276), Qwen3 Max: 22.0 (#186)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%72.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13261448
DTBench61.3%82.1%
LMCA10.3%28.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
Chess Puzzles—4%
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.41

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 33.5 (#172), Qwen3 Max: 37.6 (#94)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Math13001447
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 36.5 (#157), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#72)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Expert12951457
GPQA Diamond—72.6%
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 45.5 (#166), Qwen3 Max: 53.9 (#58)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English13131429
LMArena Chinese13271479
LMArena French13521450
LMArena German13411463
LMArena Japanese12831399
LMArena Korean12851397
LMArena Russian13141428
LMArena Spanish13461463

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 69.3 (#172), Qwen3 Max: 75.0 (#81)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following13091420

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 40.6 (#147), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#129)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query13341439
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Command A: 47.8 (#204), Qwen3 Max: 62.6 (#72)

BenchmarkCommand AQwen3 Max
LMArena Text13311439
LMArena Creative Writing13191401
LMArena Multi-Turn13381446
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1145—

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.

Is Command A or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Command A and Qwen3 Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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