Model comparison
Command A vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Cohere
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads 42.5 to 27.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 28.8% for Command A and 66.7% for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper at $0.50 / $2 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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 43.0 |
| Released | 2025-03-13 | 2025-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 256K | 131K |
| Max output | 8K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $2 |
| Results tracked | 24 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 27.2 (#322), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1440 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Command A: 35.9 (#40), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 18.3 (#283), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1428 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
Math Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 36.2 (#171), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1440 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
Knowledge Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 37.1 (#159), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | 9.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1417 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |
Multilingual Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 45.3 (#170), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1417 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1395 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1435 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 69.1 (#177), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |
Long Context Command A leads
Command A: 40.6 (#151), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct leads
Command A: 47.6 (#208), Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)
| Benchmark | Command A | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1416 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Command A better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.0 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Command A or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.50 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Command A lists at $2.50 and $10.
Is Command A or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 27.2 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-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.