Model comparison

Command A vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Command A Cohere

36.5

Rank #215 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 1 category and QwQ-32B in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 40.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 20.9% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Command A and QwQ-32B specifications
Command AQwQ-32B
ProviderCohereAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.539.8
Released2025-03-132024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window256K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2436

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Command A: 27.2 (#322), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot12%20.9%
LMArena Coding13301333
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Command A: 35.9 (#40), QwQ-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard57.1%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Command A: 18.3 (#283), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts13261325
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
DTBench61.3%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA10.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math QwQ-32B leads

Command A: 36.2 (#171), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Math13001359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge Too close to call

Command A: 37.1 (#159), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert12951324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Command A: 45.3 (#170), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English13131305
LMArena Chinese13271378
LMArena French13511336
LMArena German13411313
LMArena Japanese12851262
LMArena Korean12851279
LMArena Russian13141297
LMArena Spanish13471354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Command A: 69.1 (#177), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13091297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Command A: 40.6 (#151), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query13341308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Command A: 47.6 (#208), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkCommand AQwQ-32B
LMArena Text13311329
LMArena Creative Writing13191288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11451257
LMArena Multi-Turn13391314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Command A better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Command A or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Command A and QwQ-32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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