# Command A Plus vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

> Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Command A Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-a-plus-vs-gemini-3-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A Plus scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.5 Flash in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 21.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 37.8% for Command A Plus and 53.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper at $1.50 / $9 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for Command A Plus.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
- Command A Plus has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Google |
| Noometry Index | 34.7 | 54.1 |
| Rank | — | 29 |
| Context | 128K | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | $1.50 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $9 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command A Plus: 38.7
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 37.8% | 53.1% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 79.3% |
| DeepSWE | — | 37.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1499 |
| WeirdML | — | 62.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1492 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 911.02 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 27.5% |
| GBAEval | — | 6.7% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 14% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,396 |

## Reasoning

- Command A Plus: 21.7
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 13.1% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 72.1% |
| SimpleBench | — | 76.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 92.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 92.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 50% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 25.4% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1488 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 32% |
| DTBench | — | 94.7% |
| LMCA | — | 47.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 58.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 154.55 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59 |

## Math

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 62.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 26.8% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 76.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 95.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 31% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1502 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 39% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |

## Knowledge

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 92.8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 66.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1493 |

## Multimodal

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1311 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 33.6% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1463 |

## Multilingual

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1475 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1525 |
| LMArena French | — | 1490 |
| LMArena German | — | 1500 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1481 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1453 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1491 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1478 |

## Instruction Following

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1466 |

## Long Context

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1481 |

## Writing & Preference

- Command A Plus: —
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46)

| Benchmark | Command A Plus | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1481 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1467 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1087 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1482 |

## FAQ

### Is Command A Plus better than Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#29); Command A Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, Command A Plus or Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $9 per million output tokens; Command A Plus lists at $2.50 and $10.

### Is Command A Plus or Gemini 3.5 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Command A Plus and Gemini 3.5 Flash share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A Plus has 2 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54.
