# Command A vs Grok-2 (Dec 2024)

> Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-a-vs-grok-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 6 categories and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Command A leads 33.5 to 19.6.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 212 | 233 |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command A: 26.8 (#317)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 32.9 (#254)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1331 | 1288 |
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 46.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command A: 35.7 (#36)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Command A: 17.7 (#276)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.4 (#294)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1272 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | 65.2% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 54.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 54.5% |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.48 |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |

## Math

- Command A: 33.5 (#172)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 19.6 (#278)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1283 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 11.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 54.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Command A: 36.5 (#157)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#225)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1254 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 53.8% |
| Confabulations | — | 20.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Command A: 45.5 (#166)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.3 (#183)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1282 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1289 |
| LMArena French | 1352 | 1317 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1287 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1283 | 1244 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1237 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1281 |

## Instruction Following

- Command A: 69.3 (#172)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 67.1 (#197)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1270 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 69.6% |

## Long Context

- Command A: 40.6 (#147)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.7 (#186)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1276 |

## Writing & Preference

- Command A: 47.8 (#204)
- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.8 (#192)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1305 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1284 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | 1290 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 63.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 45.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Command A better than Grok-2 (Dec 2024)?

Command A is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Command A or Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better for coding?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Command A and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34.