# Command A vs Grok-3 mini

> Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/command-a-vs-grok-3-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Command A scores higher in 1 category and Grok-3 mini in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok-3 mini leads 40.4 to 26.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 12% for Command A and 49.3% for Grok-3 mini.
- Command A has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Cohere | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 35.9 | 41.0 |
| Rank | 212 | 130 |
| Context | 256K | — |
| Input $/M | $2.50 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Command A: 26.8 (#317)
- Grok-3 mini: 40.4 (#126)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 12% | 49.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1331 | 1380 |
| WeirdML | — | 42.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Command A: 35.7 (#36)
- Grok-3 mini: —

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 57.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Command A: 17.7 (#276)
- Grok-3 mini: 13.8 (#323)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | 61.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1326 | 1374 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.4% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 16.5% |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
| LMCA | 10.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 140.35 |

## Math

- Command A: 33.5 (#172)
- Grok-3 mini: 40.3 (#78)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1300 | 1386 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 77.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 31.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 90.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 5.9% |

## Knowledge

- Command A: 36.5 (#157)
- Grok-3 mini: 46.3 (#75)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1295 | 1395 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 79.9% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 67.5% |

## Multilingual

- Command A: 45.5 (#166)
- Grok-3 mini: 48.3 (#141)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1313 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1327 | 1387 |
| LMArena French | 1352 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1341 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1283 | 1343 |
| LMArena Korean | 1285 | 1336 |
| LMArena Russian | 1314 | 1352 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1346 | 1379 |

## Instruction Following

- Command A: 69.3 (#172)
- Grok-3 mini: 78.7 (#8)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1309 | 1356 |
| IFEval | — | 95.1% |

## Long Context

- Command A: 40.6 (#147)
- Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#142)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1334 | 1372 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Command A: 47.8 (#204)
- Grok-3 mini: 52.7 (#163)

| Benchmark | Command A | Grok-3 mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1331 | 1370 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1319 | 1342 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1338 | 1355 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.5% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1145 | — |
| WildBench | — | 65.1% |

## FAQ

### Is Command A better than Grok-3 mini?

Grok-3 mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Command A or Grok-3 mini better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 26.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Command A and Grok-3 mini share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Command A has 24 scored results on Noometry and Grok-3 mini has 35.