# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Command A

> Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-command-a
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Command A in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 33.5 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 28% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 12% for Command A.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Noometry Index | 28.9 | 35.9 |
| Rank | 309 | 212 |
| Context | — | 256K |
| Input $/M | — | $2.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258)
- Command A: 26.8 (#317)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | 12% |
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1331 |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90)
- Command A: 35.7 (#36)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 57.1% |
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286)
- Command A: 17.7 (#276)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1326 |
| DTBench | 56.7% | 61.3% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 28.8% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LMCA | — | 10.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294)
- Command A: 33.5 (#172)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1300 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276)
- Command A: 36.5 (#157)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1295 |
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113)
- Command A: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213)
- Command A: 45.5 (#166)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1313 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1327 |
| LMArena French | 1262 | 1352 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1341 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1283 |
| LMArena Korean | 1172 | 1285 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229)
- Command A: 69.3 (#172)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1309 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195)
- Command A: 40.6 (#147)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1334 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228)
- Command A: 47.8 (#204)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Command A |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1331 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1319 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | 1145 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1338 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Command A?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Command A better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.6 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Command A share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Command A has 24.