# Command A vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

> Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-a-vs-gemini-1-5-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 6 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 36.2 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.3% for Command A and 53.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | Google |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 33.2 |
| Rank | 215 | 246 |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command A: 27.2 (#322)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1330 | 1261 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command A: 35.9 (#40)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |

## Reasoning

- Command A: 18.3 (#283)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 53.8% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |

## Math

- Command A: 36.2 (#171)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1269 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |

## Knowledge

- Command A: 37.1 (#159)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1233 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
| MMLU | — | 77.9% |

## Multimodal

- Command A: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |

## Multilingual

- Command A: 45.3 (#170)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1351 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1285 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1347 | 1243 |

## Instruction Following

- Command A: 69.1 (#177)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1258 |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |

## Long Context

- Command A: 40.6 (#151)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1284 |

## Writing & Preference

- Command A: 47.6 (#208)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

| Benchmark | Command A | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1253 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |

## FAQ

### Is Command A better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Command A or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 27.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Command A and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.